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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 7:22:48 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Madam Speaker, I am happy we have a $10-a-day national child care strategy being put into place, but it will not be a successful program. It will not be rolled out properly without a comprehensive workforce strategy, which includes ensuring that early childhood educators are paid livable wages and benefits and have some sort of income security in retirement. If we do not respect the workers who are looking after children, how do we expect the national child care strategy to ever get off the ground properly?
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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
Mrs. Laila Goodridge
  • May/31/23 11:13:15 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Madam Speaker, one of the interesting and amazing things I found when I was chatting with Kyla from KPSquared was that it has a really high retention rate when it comes to child care workers. Part of that is because it pays better than average. However, that is a decision KPSquared made for business reasons, and it is seeing a lot of success from that. Something we see when we empower people to make choices is that good decisions can be made. We absolutely have to support this industry, and we have to find ways of making sure that we are not leaving people behind. However, I do not think an Ottawa-knows-best strategy for this is necessarily going to get us that solution. I think we need to empower women so that we can see more women in these positions of power making these decisions.
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