Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government has made a lot of promises: getting rid of regional rates of pay, the GST, and more importantly, child poverty, none of which it kept.
At one time the Liberals talked about attacking child poverty and providing child care to allow parents to take full time, family supporting jobs. They have not done so. Budget after budget more and children became poor. It is continuing. The child care promise also disappeared along with pay equity and abolishing the GST promise.
This Liberal government does not seem to understand that in order to eliminate child poverty we need to do away with their parents' poverty. The NDP has always supported the creation of a national child care program. We believe that children deserve a chance to show what they can do.
Parents have been waiting for six years for this government to keep its promise. Canada's children deserve the chance to build a better future.