RE: We don't all need to imitate Quebec on daycare (October 26, 2013).
The Daycare Project has done a great job of detailing how young families in all provinces are desperate for affordable, quality childcare, as well as why such a program is so important for us all. A national newspaper doesn't often devote such substantial resources to this depth and breadth of childcare reporting. Thus, your editorial was most disappointing as it misrepresented the idea of a national childcare program and contradicted the evidence presented throughout the series.
As the national childcare advocacy group, we have never suggested the alleged "one-size-fits-all" approach. Arguing that a just, prosperous, modern Canada requires universal, high quality, publicly-funded, inclusive, not-for-profit childcare, we propose that the best way to ensure real choice in child care for all families is through an overarching national policy framework and robust service systems designed and administered by provinces/ territories.
The evidence is that it will take a national childcare program to yield the potential social and economic benefits and do the right thing for children, families and society in every part of Canada.
Ruth Bancroft, Vancouver
On behalf of the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada
Read the full daycare project series here. Have you taken the poll yet?