Families need two-pronged support for child care
The Vancouver Sun
11 Sep 2006
Letter to editor by: Rita Chudnovsky

If Marilyn Baker had spent any time learning about child care before pretending to be an expert, she would know that child-care advocates call for income supports to families and a publicly funded child-care system. She would have learned that one problem with the new taxable family allowance is that it benefits higher earning one-income families over moderate income families with both parents in the labour force.

She would have also discovered that the reason day-care wait lists have grown "in spite of 12 years of billion-dollar promises" is because one federal government after another has broken those promises. It's amazing what passes for informed commentary these days.