Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for her speech, although, with so much about House goings-on, it shifted away from early childhood education. This is concerning to me as a former early childhood educator who spent many years working hard for wages that were

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank everybody who has contributed to this debate, a debate that feels like it is going to go on forever with the Conservatives' stalling tactics. I certainly agree that we are in a child care desert. The Conservatives made note of the CCPA report time and time a

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Madam Speaker, I congratulate my hon. colleague on her new family addition. I have been talking a lot about workers. We are talking about a crisis, a child care desert, which came from the CCPA. It was very clear about what this was about. It did not say to privatize day care a

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Mr. Speaker, I enjoyed working with my colleague on the HUMA committee, as a visitor. I agree that we have a child care desert, but I have been asking the same question over and over again tonight. We have what the CCPA called a worker shortage, caused by poor wages, no benefits

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Mr. Speaker, it has been nice working with the member across the way. I know I am insistent on this, but we do not have a workforce strategy in this plan. Early childhood educators deserve respect. I remember how much I loved being an early childhood educator but how disrespecte

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Madam Speaker, I think it is very simple. It is very clear. Certainly the sector leaders like Child Care Now and all the major child care organizations have been very clear that if we want a successful national child care strategy, we need to ensure that we have a strategy for wo

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Madam Speaker, I am happy we have a $10-a-day national child care strategy being put into place, but it will not be a successful program. It will not be rolled out properly without a comprehensive workforce strategy, which includes ensuring that early childhood educators are paid

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Madam Speaker, it goes back to legislation. We need to negotiate a piece of legislation to enshrine it into law. This is about law. I was very happy to see support from the Conservatives, the Bloc and members of the Liberal Party, in fact, for my amendment to include “free, pri

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Madam Speaker, one of the benefits of the Quebec child care system is that more women are able to participate in the workforce. Does the member agree that access to affordable, quality child care is a gender equity issue?

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Madam Speaker, I rise today to speak about Bill C-35, the Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act. Let me take this opportunity to first of all thank all of the advocates, experts, parents, child care providers, workers, unions and others who took the time to make presentations

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Madam Speaker, it was a pleasure working with the minister on the bill, and with other members of the House trying to improve the bill. One of the concerns I brought forward, and continue to bring forward, is about workers. I was an early childhood educator, as I have indicated i

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Madam Speaker, my hon. colleague brought up the study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. She is absolutely right. It is called “Child Care Deserts in Canada”. I agree with her. We have a child care crisis. One of its key recommendations in the report to address th

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North has had a track record, since this issue has come up, of minimizing it. Today we hear him competing on who has been worse on foreign interference, the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party. I think they are in clear competition. That w

Housing  Mr. Speaker, the federal watchdog for housing rights has called for an investigation into the government's failure to prevent and eliminate homelessness among women and gender-diverse people across Canada. Those who are especially at risk are indigenous women and two-spirit peopl

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, I find it funny that the Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network has called this crisis so severe that it is calling it one of the great, most severe human rights crises in the country. Are we supposed to be thankful, in Winnipeg Centre, when women and girl