During question period on Wednesday, NDP Childcare critic Doly Begum said Doug Ford is putting profits for corporate child care providers ahead of Northern and rural families that need affordable care today.<\/p>\n
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\u201cParents across Ontario need affordable, high quality, public, not-for-profit child care,\u201d said Begum.\u00a0 \u201cPublic dollars should go into care for our kids, not private profits for multinational companies.\u00a0But the premier seems more interested in helping corporate child care shareholders than parents or children.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Begum read testimonials from families in Northern Ontario that need affordable childcare and said that educators in Peterborough are worried that rural areas will simply be left without childcare if the premier turns child care over to the private sector. \u00a0\u201cLori is a parent in Thunder Bay who said \u2018non-profit child care provides support and education for lots of families in our area and we need more of it. Giving money to big corporations isn\u2019t going to help parents in Thunder Bay,\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0said Begum. \u201cLynn is a grandmother from Kenora. She said \u2018we need more reliable and affordable community child care in Kenora, not money going to foreign-owned corporations.\u2019<\/p>\n
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\u201cCan the minister explain to families in rural and northern communities, in big cities, and everywhere in between, why she thinks giving money to big corporations is more important than safe, high quality, non-profit child care?\u201d<\/p>\n
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Last week the Ford government tried to pit parents against each other, suggesting only parents and people from Toronto are concerned about the privatization of child care.<\/p>\n
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SOURCE –\u00a0NDP Child care critic Doly Begum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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