If it takes a village to raise a child, it’s doubtful that the quality of childcare will be enhanced if the village is drowning in exponentially rising debt. The fact that two levels of government have reached an agreement on this multi-generational millstone is nothing to be celebrated.
The agreement follows the outline of agreements reached with several other provinces that call for daycare fees to be cut in half next year, and reduced to an average of $10 per day in five years. It includes the creation of more than 40,000 new spaces and commits the federal government to spending $3.8 billion over the next five years.
Just what we need, the government managing another stretch of the lives of our children.
This is nothing but a make work program for immigrants, after all, they are the ones having all the kids. This allows them to start a day home and they can pay themselves to look after their own kids.
Most every government spending program is a cultural welfare program … simply designed to transfer wealth from the productive class to the dependent class … because you’ze white folk needz tooze pays yer fair share.
Jesuit maxim:
“Give me the child for the first seven years and I’ll give you the man.”
All part of the plan.
Beautiful!
Put the next generation of children further in debt, for the children!
I try to explain to the younger folks that their favorite socialist government won’t be able to afford any health care system or any education system if interest rates go up a few points.
Zip, nuttin, nada.
Hey, the sooner they can get their hooks into your children, the sooner they can create compliant, brave new world citizens. It’ll all be worth it in the end. The end justifies the means don’t you know…and what’s several billion dollars per year between fellow travellers.
And what happens after five years when the borrowed money runs out, and Blackie can’t get any more loans from international lenders?
I’ve have heard the Boomer generation have a good laugh when confronted with the knowledge that their grandchildren will be in the debt they created.
Given that everyone is working from home, why the need for daycare?
$10 today, $10 tomorrow, and forever. You can’t ever raise it because you will lose the next election, and inflation simply doesn’t matter.
People who think women should be able to vote are the enablers of this.
Now we’re talking.
Wish I could say this was gonna cost the UCP my support, but I already bailed on the UCP when far left Jason Kenney et al sided with Joe Vipond instead of his base.
Bunch of dung eating commies. The lot of them. It turned my stomach listening to an Alberta “conservative” govt boasting about ushering in yet another socialist program hand in hand with the spawn of Castro.
Remember when that Liberal Senator referred to actual parents as “mere minders”?
This has been in the works for a long time…
When taxes are paid by people or companies to any level of government, it involves actual money. Even if you finance the tax owed, the government will be the first creditor in line when they take your home, car, etc.
Government funding at all levels is increasingly by raising debt. The federal government has the additional power to simply print more money and then hand it out to its’ supporters.
This disconnect between tax income and funding explains how Alberta can supposedly have received more funding than it paid out during the past year. The taxes are still real dollars, but the funding is hollow without anything behind it.
and today it was announced … (National Post) “Representatives of 22 UCP constituencies have sent a letter to the party’s executive saying they have met the threshold required for a vote before March 1” on Jason Kenney’s leadership.
I doubt this agreement will calm them.
Just wait for unions to go on strike, maybe $50/hr should do it.
Then of course you gotta have the LGBXYZ looking after the little punks to make it even.
#1. This is an example of late-stage capitalism. Women are incentivized to prioritize work over family. Everything in service of the 9-5.
#2. This is an example of Communism. Communal warehousing of children. The state as early learning parent provider.
#3. The unintended consequences of this will probably be quite bad. TBA
#4. Fiscal conservatism will likely kill this program in the cradle. Reality is arriving faster everyday and wokeism won’t be able to survive math.
So the spoiled brat of Confederation AKA Quebec gets more preferential treatment thanks to their very own Prime Moron. His job s to sell this program to Provincial Premiers who are terrified of pissing off women voters. As someone said above this will be well received by immigrants who have more kids that Canadian women. The only thing holding this country together is fear of the future and giving up the social equity programs that do nothing but promote enslavement. The welfare class and the indigenous bunch have been slurping away at the government teat for generations and have zero intention to stop.
One of the keys to dodging blame for gross fiscal incontinence is for a senior level of government cost sharing or granting loot to a more junior level of government, effectively co-opting their integrity by making them complicit in the scheme. As long as you can maximize the number of benefactors to stolen loot from future taxpayers you can buy their silence about the crime. It’s why they need a grand distraction like Wuhan, long dead possible Indian graves, or climate hysteria – the Eloi are easily distracted. The Ponzi of bankrupt western democracies must go on……….. until it doesn’t.
“It takes a village to raise a child.” It takes a bunch of families raising their own children to make a village.
Instead of getting into bed with Ottawa we should be withdrawing from everything federal.
This was a signal from Kenney.