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However the problem with this argument is that all these people who currently work and pay for childcare don’t provide this benefit. There is no benefit from subsidizing someone who already chooses to work. So I’m general unless this program is specifically targeted and means tested it becomes an expensive way to get the desired benefit of more labour participation.
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Alberta has the largest wage gap between men and women, the lowest proportion of dual earners, and the highest proportion of families with a stay at home parent of all provinces.
So there's evidence to suggest that women in Alberta are in fact choosing
not to work because of the high cost of childcare.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/.../14202-eng.htm
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/...-the-workforce