We believe that parents are the best bet for their children, and that they are capable and competent of choosing the right kind of child care that works for them. That could be a space in a centre, it could be a home-based day care provider, it could be a parent in the home, or juggling schedules as our family has chosen to do.
Again, to try to account for all of this diversity and then steamroll over it in a national system that inevitably is not going to uniquely address those needs strikes me as striking a real blow against what we call the “ecosystem of care” that does exist and is diverse and very unique in allowing for families to work and care in the way that works for them.