Former cabinet minister schools Harper on cash
Vancouver Island News Group -- Saanich News
April 20, 2007
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... McCallum may have caused a few eyes to glaze over at that point in his speech, but the 100-or-so party faithful snapped to attention when a single mother of four asked him point blank what the Liberals would do about child care.

The Esquimalt woman said she spends more than she makes to put her children in care, and the $100 a month she receives currently is "not anywhere near" what a federal childcare program would pay....