Provinces to figure out how to create daycare spaces
The Daily News -- Kamloops
March 20, 2007
By: Norma Greenaway

OTTAWA -- The minority Conservative government has done an about-face on child care and decided to rely on provincial governments rather than businesses to create a promised 25,000 child-care spaces in the coming fiscal year.

Under the budget plan announced Monday, the provinces and territories will divvy up $250 million to create the spaces.

Critics dismissed the sum as a drop in the bucket of what is needed to meet child-care demands in the country....

The $250 million is almost $1 billion less than the provinces and territories would have received in fiscal 2007-'08 under agreements they signed with the former Liberal government....

The Conservatives' original plan called for replacing it with $250 million a year worth of tax incentives and grants to businesses and other organizations to create spaces.