In my travels, sometimes I take the train, but other times I take Air Canada. There was an ad in the Air Canada magazine that talked about good choice. It said, “defining child care since 1988”. It had an actual statement of earnings available for every school, with no educational experience required. “The Goddard School is the franchise system for success-oriented entrepreneurs”--this is the Goddard School for Early Childhood Development. It is a child care franchise centre. It is asking Canadians to come and purchase this franchise to start up child care centres. The founder, Marijke Strachan, is not a teacher, she said. She doesn't have a degree in education, and yet she is running a preschool. It's in the ad itself. It boasts that the advertising department produced top-quality, award-winning print, TV, and radio advertisements, so that you too, without any education or training whatsoever, can start up your own child care centre.
Do we want profit-making companies to run education child care centres for our children? How does this bill deal with it?