Thank you.
For Grassroots Women, we also see that the live-in caregiver program is actually the de facto national child care program of the federal government. The reason we oppose this program is because it is child care accessible only to middle- and upper-class Canadians, leaving working-class women to struggle through survival day to day with no access to affordable and accessible child care.
The reason these employers are able to hire live-in caregivers is because they are also getting a very cheap deal. If you look at it, if you pay $1,500 a month for one child caregiver who can take care of two, three, or four children and also do domestic duties, that employer is getting a very cheap deal, when it costs at least $1,000 a month to put a child into a licensed child care program.