Dan Albas on Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act

In the House of Commons on February 29th, 2024. See this statement in context.

Second reading and concurrence in Senate amendmentsCanada Early Learning and Child Care ActGovernment Orders

February 29th, 2024 / 1:15 p.m.

Conservative

Dan Albas Conservative Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, BC

Mr. Speaker, I certainly appreciate the member's intervention on this issue.

This is from a B.C. CTV news story that reads, “Our initial study intended to only interview low-income women who were single moms accessing those $10-per-day spots,” said Dr. Lea Caragata, director of the school of social work at UBC and co-author of the study. “After six months of intensive recruitment, we could only find 13 across the province.”

Billions of dollars have been allocated by the government with the whole idea that those who need it the most would get the support they need, yet this study by UBC shows only 13 in my province. We are the third-largest province in this great country.

Could the member elaborate on how the government continually says one thing but does another?

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