Get over child-care cash, Tories tell provinces
Prince George Citizen / Canadian Press
May 30, 2006
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OTTAWA (CP) -- The federal Conservatives are sending a blunt message to the provinces that they'd better get used to living without the billions in child-care money they were promised by the previous Liberal government...

"We campaigned on that," Social Development Minister Diane Finley declared Monday. "Canadians chose us with that full knowledge. And now we're going to make that happen."

The comment came as Finley emerged from a day-long meeting with her provincial counterparts, some of whom had hoped to persuade her to change course.