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“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.” ~~ John G. Diefenbaker

The only “every child” he speaks of will be from those families using government sponsored child care facilities, under a program that will inevitably need to be approved, including content, by government

Since writing todays blog post a short-time ago, it has now been announced that the BC government is spending (some would say) or investing (others would say) more than $1 billion in child care over the next three years, to lay the foundation for a universal child care system , Under ChildCare BC. Katrina Chen, Minister of State of Child Care The media release titled, “ New benefit helps 60,000 more families with child care expenses”, states that the NDP will announce the child care facilities that have been selected as prototype sites to offer child care at $10 a day or less. ( please read my earlier post from today regarding how the government is slowly but surely taking over all child care options, and why this may not be a good idea). IF, as the government states, the Affordable Child Care Benefit works in tandem with the Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative, this will mean it will ONLY available to authorized government child care facilities – excluding once a...

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