Spend
surplus on daycare
The Vancouver Province
16 Jul 2007
Letters - Sharon Gregson, Vancouver
With over 70 per cent of B.C.'s mothers working and only enough
daycare for 12 per cent of kids, the cost of daycare is running
at over $1,000 per month.
We have a budget surplus in Victoria of $4.1 billion, and yet
still the Liberals are cutting daycare funding.
What gives? Does the premier believe women belong barefoot and
pregnant in the kitchen?
The taxes parents pay are part of that surplus, and should be
invested into building an affordable, quality daycare system.
B.C.'s working parents should be marching in the streets to
protest the government's approach to hoarding billions while
cutting child-care services. |