Finance committee  Any benefits should go to all families and all parents and be means-tested, so yes.

Finance committee  A paper we wrote is called "Look Before You Leap: The Real Costs and Complexities of National Daycare” for a reason. It's not just a budgeting attempt of what national day care costs; it leads you to discuss and consider all of the very significant complexities. There will be not

Finance committee  I'll only say that there's plenty of peer-reviewed research that the U.S. is also considering, research by Canadian scholars of some repute—Baker, Gruber and Milligan, and Steven Lehrer at Queen's University—that shows poor outcomes for children. Child care is not about getting w

Finance committee  I truly believe that we can work with a realm of policy options, such as refundable tax credits for those using child care centres or something that could be tweaked in the provinces and be delivered more than just annually, which would provide financial relief to those most in n

Finance committee  The research in Quebec has suggested that this is already happening. People of greater means are accessing the system on the backs of those who would most need it financially. I think there are various reasons for that. Ultimately, any kind of system that fails to identify those

Finance committee  Yes, that's definitely a concern that I have, and I have commentary from female leaders in the construction industry who have noted that this schedule of construction makes a universal program unfeasible for women and that what they need is something more agile and flexible. Whe

Finance committee  We believe that parents are the best bet for their children, and that they are capable and competent of choosing the right kind of child care that works for them. That could be a space in a centre, it could be a home-based day care provider, it could be a parent in the home, or j

Finance committee  We did do a recent poll with the Angus Reid Institute asking about child care needs among parents and Canadians at large. What we found was a diversity of responses. When presented with any array of policy options, parents accepted each option by a high percentage. For example,

Finance committee  Indeed that's the viewpoint that we take. I would point to statistics from Statistics Canada and other polls and surveys suggesting that cost is not the first issue that parents face. Where cost is a problem, the money that goes to parents would allow us all to make our own dec

Finance committee  Providing the money to parents is definitely a more equitable and efficient way, but first we have to address the supply side issues. To this, I would say that the Statistics Canada data that I have examined suggests that the supply is not as bad as we are told, and whether that'

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. I will do so.

Finance committee  I'll turn to the example I cited in Quebec as to what happened. You saw the private providers leaving the industry as they couldn't compete, and then being brought back in with a tax credit later on. More specific to this moment, there was an article in the The Vancouver Sun, I

Finance committee  The short answer is no. I'm thinking of the people who live in the townhomes next to us, with shift work involved, with unusual work hours. One father stays home, while grandparents are being used down the street. These are all examples, me included, of people who would be excl

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Every morning I work in taking care of my two-year-old. Every afternoon I work for Cardus, a not-for-profit think tank. The federal government thinks only one of these activities is worthy of federal support. Some afternoons my husband takes care

Status of Women committee  With regard to parents and mothers and fathers at home making choices around their child care, I think that even large sums of money to parents for them to be able to make those choices is a more effective policy decision than creating a bureaucratic system where the money doesn'