{"id":206875,"date":"2019-03-26T02:49:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T06:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=206875"},"modified":"2019-03-26T02:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T06:50:19","slug":"new-democrats-would-bring-in-25-daycare-if-re-elected-notley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/03\/26\/new-democrats-would-bring-in-25-daycare-if-re-elected-notley\/","title":{"rendered":"New Democrats would bring in $25 daycare if re elected: Notley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CALGARY \u2014 Leader Rachel Notley says the New Democrats would\nexpand $25-a-day daycare if they were to be re-elected in the April 16 Alberta\nvote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking in Calgary, Notley said the plan would include\nadding 13,000 daycare spaces to the current 62,000 spots in the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor too many Alberta moms and dads, finding safe and\naffordable, quality child care is a real challenge,\u201d Notley said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The promise is an expansion of a pilot program begun two\nyears ago that capped daycare costs at $25 daily at 7,300 spaces in 122\nlocations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notley said a $25 cap would apply no matter what a parent\nhas been currently paying for child care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/38548387266_6fb70319b5_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/38548387266_6fb70319b5_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/38548387266_6fb70319b5_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/38548387266_6fb70319b5_z-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>FILE: Premier Rachel Notley spoke at the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association\u2019s Convention and Trade Show at the TELUS Convention Centre in Calgary on Thursday, November 23, 2017. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/premierofalberta\/38548387266\/\">Photo<\/a> by Chris Schwarz\/Government of Alberta via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/premierofalberta\/\">Premier of Alberta\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/\">CC BY-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More daycare would get more people employed and add nearly\n$6 billion a year to Alberta&#8217;s GDP, said Notley, who added that Alberta\nhas&nbsp;Canada&#8217;s largest gap between men and women in\nlabour force participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI cannot count the number of times I have heard from women\nthat good, affordable childcare is a barrier to them re-entering the workforce,\u201d\nshe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnything that holds Alberta women back, holds Alberta back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notley pointed to a subsidized daycare program in Quebec\nthat she said increased overall employment by nearly two per cent and GDP by\nalmost as much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NDP is budgeting $1.5 billion for expanded daycare over\nthe next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United Conservative Party called the announcement \u201cmassive\nnew spending\u201d and said only some parents will benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe NDP plan announced today will force parents who choose\nat home or informal child care to subsidize the choices of a minority of\nparents through their taxes,\u201d a news release from the party stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe NDP plan excludes rural families, shift workers,\nparents who work at home, and those who prefer less formal kinds of child care.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY \u2014 Leader Rachel Notley says the New Democrats would expand $25-a-day daycare if they were to be re-elected in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":167252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206876,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206875\/revisions\/206876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}