HELP the Working Poor!!

Quebec tells day-care centres to open longer hours
Last updated
Oct 26 2005 07:27 AM EDT CBC News
The Charest government has tabled legislation that promises
to make public day-care centre hours more flexible for parents.
Bill 124 also slashes the size of the bureaucracy that oversees
the province's network of affordable child care.
Day-care Minister Carole Théberge says child-care centres
need to make their hours more accommodating for parents
who work shifts outside the normal business hours
of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., such as in hospitals or shopping malls.
Day-care centres near such locations will be solicited to open
spots for children on evenings and weekends,
Théberge said Tuesday.
"I'm sure somebody will want to give the service," she said.
Théberge says, rather than injecting more money into
day-care centres, the government is trimming administration
for savings of about $50 million.
"We already put more than $1.5 billion in those day-care services.
I think the need to ask some questions and see if we do have
the best practices now and do it the right way.
These are questions I will be asking for sure," Théberge said.
Centres refusing to offer extended service will lose some
government grants to those centres willing to stay
open late, she added.
The government is attempting the impossible by trying to
improve service for parents, while freezing budgets, says
Johanne Lachance of the association of home day-care
centres.
And the Opposition is pondering the same dilemma.
"How can you pretend to improve the quality of services
with the same, or with less, resources?" asked
Parti Québécois critic Camil Bouchard.
The government's only option, said Bouchard, is to begin
asking parents to pay more than seven dollars a day.
The minister has hinted that a price hike could happen
within a year.
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WHAT? Asking parents again to pay more?
Companies are now forcing workers to work longer hours
for the same pay!
For the hourly minimum wage workers, the seperation from
their children is hardly worth the effort, but to resist could
mean NO JOB.
The goverment should gladly support this endevor to ensure
parents know their kids are with a proper daycare facillity,
while they work to ensure their greedy bosses are happy.

COME ON TORONTO LETS HAVE A GOOD
DAYCARE SYSTEM LIKE QUEBEC!!!
lets help get our working poor working and not
being forced to leave their children with 2nd grade
sitters. Or not being able to take a job as no daycare
exists for weekends and nights.