The case of a Tory MP’s vanishing stay-at-home mom quote

Published December 19, 2014

Golly gee, what exactly did Mr. Dechert say? On Friday, the Brampton Guardian published a story about the Conservative income splitting plan and quoted Bob Dechert, Conservative MP for Mississauga-Erindale. The direct quote attributed to him about stay-at-home moms and new immigrants was, well, controversial. Here’s a screen grab of Dechert’s quote: There was an immediate uproar on social […]

WATCH: Ontario PC leadership candidate says $15-a-day child care “takes away your obligations as a parent”

Published November 20, 2014

Yikes. Guess we can add a check mark to Lisa MacLeod’s name on the list of people who don’t support a $15-a-day national child care program. “This is just the extension of a government policy that is bound and determined to have our children raised by the state rather than raised by us,” MacLeod, a […]

Watch Stephen Lewis rip apart the “absurd” Conservative family tax plan

Published November 15, 2014

Stephen Lewis is fired up. In a keynote address to the Child Care 2020 conference in Winnipeg, the former Canadian ambassador to the UN ripped apart the Conservatives’ claim that their new income splitting tax scheme and expanded Universal Child Care benefit will offer meaningful help to families struggling with their child care needs. That’s […]

This is how outrageous child care costs in Canada have become

Published November 10, 2014

Parents in Canada pay too much for child care. That’s the big take away from a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The Parent Trap breaks down child care costs by city and province, revealing that no matter where you live in Canada (except in Quebec, where parents can access the province’s $7-a-day […]

VIDEO. Conservative suggests TV host wants government to raise your kids

Published October 21, 2014

Does CBC host Evan Solomon really want the government to raise your children for you? Everybody knows this isn’t true. Even so, Minister of State for Finance Kevin Sorenson went on national television on Monday night and made this claim, inspired by Conservative talking points to attack the opposition’s $15-a-day child care plan. Granted, Sorenson, while appearing on CBC’s […]

Conservatives say moms who use day care aren’t raising their own kids

Published October 17, 2014

If you put your child in a day care program, you’re handing your kid over to the government to raise. Canada’s working mothers may find this surprising, but that’s what the Conservatives have actually come up with to attack a $15-a-day child care plan. After the New Democrats unveiled the plan this week, the Conservative Party put […]