'Typical tory policy' hurting parents and kids
Cariboo Press -- Kamloops This Week
February 2, 2007
Letters -- Emile Scheffel

Editor:

Whether or not child-care providers in Kamloops are justified in inconveniencing parents by withdrawing their services for a day next week is an argument in which I will not take sides.

What is much more important is the reason for which this sector of the economy intends to take such drastic action. We must all remember that the Conservatives' changes to the national child-care program -- eliminating that program -- harms not just child-care providers, but, above all, parents and children.

To take what the Liberal government intended as a national program - - in the same sense as the tremendously successful Canada Pension Plan -- and turn it into a fend-for-yourself system where families get $100 per head per month (subject, of course, to taxes) is typical Tory policy, and may have seemed like a decent idea at the time.

So did electing a government -- and a member of Parliament -- who promised a better deal for Canadians.