Kevin Carmichael: We should all take a lesson from Quebec’s policy of heavily subsidized daycare
“Household roles are playing a little bit of a part in women not getting into trades,” said Kayla Fehr, a certified mechanic and co-chair of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology’s Women in Trades and Technology Committee. “Girls are growing up and they aren’t being told that the trades are an option.”
Counterintuitively, that would put upward pressure on interest rates because we’d be less able to create faster growth without stoking inflation, which is what guides the central bank’s decisions about where to set borrowing costs. No other province comes close, and no other province does anywhere near as much to lower the cost of child care, although British Columbia is headed in that direction.
We can’t take for granted that an academic consensus will automatically turn into policy, even when the federal government indicates it’s listening by running all its policies through a feminist analysis.Kate Bezanson, associate dean of social sciences at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont. and co-researchers determined that $2 billion would be needed to restore daycare capacity to pre-crisis levels.
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