Daycare a necessity
Cowichan Valley Citizen
06 Apr 2007
Opinion

If the turnout and energy generated by Tuesday's meeting is any indication, the federal Conservatives are in trouble in Nanaimo-Cowichan on the issue of childcare funding.

Nationally, the party has made some inroads with women voters but that can easily be frittered away with a policy which needlessly offends and creates hardship for the more than 70 per cent of adult women who work outside the home.

The Conservatives just don't seem to get that the issue isn't about the best way to raise children, it's that in this day and age adult women, whether single or in a partnership, have to work to make ends meet.

Abundant daycare resources are as important to Canadians as electricity and clean water. Forcing daycare and related resource centres to close with funding cuts just won't fly, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his local representative, Reed Elley, may be about to find out.