Federal budget misses mark: Skeena MP
QCIobserver.com (Queen Charlotte Observer)
By Nathan Cullen, MP
April 30, 2010

He is especially disappointed in the funding for childcare. ‘We drew a line in the sand a month ago and said we want real child care spaces,’ he said of the New Democratic Party's priorities for the budget.

He thinks the $1,200 a year now promised to parents with children under six will not go even half way to cover the cost of child care. According to the NDP, fewer than one in five children have access to quality child care and the party called for the Conservatives to create 20,000 new childcare spaces by 2010.

The childcare dollars offered are taxed as income, and with the $250 a year child supplement eliminated, Mr. Cullen estimates the amount actually comes closer to $400 a year….