Human Resources committee  Parents I've contacted who have special needs children are the ones pretty likely to stay home with the child. For example, there are people who have one parent at home and can't get any funding until they put the child into any institutional care for even a few hours a day, and

Human Resources committee  Could I speak to that?

Human Resources committee  The understanding I have is that when the Liberals came across the country with Mr. Dryden offering those arrangements, they put a condition on the funding: it was to be only for the creation of child care spaces. The Government of Alberta did not want that condition placed on it

Human Resources committee  That's fine. What I'm suggesting regarding Bill C-303 is that for those children who do actually prefer third party child care, it's fine. But unless you also value the child care happening in all those other locations, this bill should not fly and will not be popular with voter

Human Resources committee  I'm in London.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for inviting me. I'm pleased to be here. I'm particularly impressed with the teleconference, which is, I think, a way to get a lot more public and women's involvement in issues. When you are discussing Bill C-303, I have to say that it's pretty well impossible to be a

Status of Women committee  My daughter is a lawyer, and she's a feminist of the quality of the big day care activist groups. She has been a critic of mine for years, so we have really good dialogues, but she's starting to understand me now that she has children. I think she's always been amazed that I us

Status of Women committee  There are a lot of magazines that have done some cutesy things about that. I think the latest one in the States was $150,000 a year. I'm not actually asking for that.

Status of Women committee  Well, there were 19 day care people and me. Anyway, I think Mr. Stanton asked a really good question about how to pay for this, and I think we are both concerned about that. But you have to understand that women's work has been one-third of the GDP that has been ignored. Adjust

Status of Women committee  Oh, were you there? I didn't know.

Status of Women committee  There are two answers to that. The Senate did a study called Child at Risk some years ago, and it found that the two elements of taking care of a child that keep them out of the criminal justice system are the same caregiver for the first three years of their life; it can be a

Status of Women committee  Wow. Thanks. I actually like the Early Years program. My daughter uses them, and I'm not against that. What I am against is that to access the Early Years program or the day care, you have to pay someone else. It still doesn't put one penny in the pockets of the mother. I mad

Status of Women committee  The reason I keep referring to Ms. Lysack is that I don't know if you understand that we are interpreted by the media as warring factions, and we actually have a lot in common. We have never been in the same room before, because people thought bombs would go off.

Status of Women committee  Thanks for your question. There are many ways to do income splitting. In the United States they have tax brackets, so the wealthy do pay more than the poor. That helps address some of that concern you have about a windfall for the rich. The other suggestion has been to put a cap

Status of Women committee  Five thousand dollars is a lot more than nothing.