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House Hansard - 203

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 31, 2023 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 203 - May/31/23
Ms. Leah Gazan
  • May/31/23 7:25:58 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Madam Speaker, I think it is very simple. It is very clear. Certainly the sector leaders like Child Care Now and all the major child care organizations have been very clear that if we want a successful national child care strategy, we need to ensure that we have a strategy for workers. That includes ensuring that early childhood educators are provided with livable wages and benefits and have income security in their retirement. We also need a strategy to train new workers entering the field, one that provides education to become qualified early childhood educators. The solutions are there. The government just needs to listen.
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Context: House Hansard - 203 - May/31/23
Ms. Louise Chabot (Thérèse-De Blainville, BQ)
  • May/31/23 8:54:23 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her comments, but I still have questions. I think there is a reality that she describes well: the issue of home-based child care services. When the public early childhood education services network was implemented in Quebec, both home-based and institutional child care services were accredited, for those who wanted that, in order to participate in the same mission, the same regulations of early childhood education services. I do not understand how a program could support child care centres without a permit if we agree that the objective is early childhood education and not just the child care services that many people can offer.
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Context: House Hansard - 203 - May/31/23
Ms. Sylvie Bérubé
  • May/31/23 9:23:45 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Mr. Speaker, I thank the minister for her question. All of my committee colleagues and I worked really hard. What always surprises me is that Quebec is trying to be a model and, because we are a model, it seems as though we are inconvenient. I do not understand because, when it comes to day care and early childhood education, we have been demonstrating since 1997 that children do well in day care when women go back to work. It is also about work-life balance. I know that the minister is a trustworthy person. However, since words fade away but written statements endure, I would have liked to see it set out in writing that Quebec is a model and has special expertise in this area.
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