Kevin Falcon makes multimillion-dollar pledge to revolutionize child-care spaces
Could frustrated parents, tired of waiting for the NDP to make good on its promise of $10-a-day child care, be lured away to another party by the offer of generous cash subsidies?
“I want all the parents out there struggling with unaffordable daycare to understand this: We are going to fix this problem immediately,” said Falcon. After seven years in power, only 10 per cent of the almost 150,000 child-care spaces in B.C. are truly $10-a-day. Many are still full pay, at an average of around $1,200 a month. Others are part of a byzantine system of income-tested government fee reductions, benefits and applications for both parents and providers, the complexities of which make doing your own taxes look simple.
“We’ve got to level the playing field now. And we're going to do it by providing direct subsidies to those 90 per cent that are still struggling with an average of $1,200 a month.” “I do not want Jimmy Pattison’s grandchildren getting subsidized,” said Falcon, referencing the B.C. billionaire. “But I want that level to be high, because … there’s a lot of expenses that families are already suffering. So we do want to provide that relief directly.”
United did not provide a cost. But if the more than 130,000 child-care spaces in B.C. that aren’t currently part of the $10-a-day system required a full $1,000 monthly subsidy, the program could cost more than $130 million a year.
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