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Originally Posted by GGG
Can you explain what was so unique about Alberta that the daycare plans that work in Quebec, Ontario and BC would not work here
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We actually did better than all those places. Quebec obviously is its own thing. The amount of daycares that popped up within like two years was unbelievable. Those provinces could never touch that type of turnaround. Our experience was vastly better than my friends in BC.
Completely shutting out dayhomes was an absolute abomination of a decision. That was like 80% of children at the time. Inevitably created shortages that are still on going. Treating it as universal, again, terrible decision. It should clearly be scaled to income. Capping the amount of private daycares allowed. Terrible decision. Another point on universal, why should all these places cost the same? When we were looking there was a 30-40% variance in cost. Now, all the same price. The two storey daycare with an indoor playground and bus service. Same cost as the place that put up a fence in the alley of a strip mall. Turns the whole thing into a lottery system or who do you know which I think is terrible design for any government program.
I think it was Kenney at the time, tried fighting it but inevitably it was follow the feds rules or lose billions. He had no leverage to argue. No one that lived in ALberta and understood our daycare system would have designed it like that. Dayhome operators, our politicians, parents, they all pointed things out but it was follow Trudeau's rules or lose the money. I'm guessing he just copy pasted Quebec's system and figured good enough
Which is exactly why people want this type of ruling. Disagreeing with the Prime Minister should not entail a whole province to be punished by withholding money. The main argument against it seems to be I do not want the province in charge of Health/education/ect at all so please come save us Liberals. Get off the internet and it quickly becomes apparent which side is more popular.
