Finance committee  On the brief that we submitted, we show that the cost of accepting biologically unnecessary vulnerability for kids, so accepting 30% of kids coming into school not ready to learn, equals in one province alone about $400 billion over about 60 years. Across the country that's a cos

Finance committee  Okay. Over that number of years, the ratio of return is 6:1, but you have to be patient. Mr. McCallum is right: you're not going to get $6 for every $1 you invest tomorrow or even in the first three electoral cycles. Why? Because the kids need to grow up and get into the labour m

Finance committee  Yes, 2:1 is a smart economic strategy, and 6:1 is brilliant, but you need to be patient.

Finance committee  The long and short of it is that child care services would pay for themselves over time. It's true that in the first three electoral cycles you wouldn't see more than 33% to 48% back, but over time it would remedy in part this massive brain drain we're permitting. That would pay

Finance committee  Good afternoon. It's a pleasure to be here and a particular pleasure to build off the presentations by Susan Khazaie and Susan Harney. I come from the Human Early Learning Partnership, which is a research institute based at the University of British Columbia. The quality of our

Finance committee  Thank you very much. My name is Dr. Kershaw. I'm here today on behalf of the Human Early Learning Partnership at UBC. For the last two years, HELP has been selected by the World Health Organization to be the international knowledge hub on research about the social determinants o