FAFIA is focusing on the status of Canada’s national child care program for International Women’s Day. To this end, we are inviting all of our members to sign onto an open letter from a FAFIA partner organization, the Childcare Advocacy Association of Canada (CCAAC). It asks the Prime Minister, other federal party leaders and the provincial premiers to honor the existing childcare agreements between federal and provincial/territorial governments.
Child Care
IWD 2006: Childcare is Key to Women's Equality
– Wed, 2006 – 03 – 08 14:30
On International Women’s Day, the National Association of Women and the Law and the Feminist Alliance for International Action call on Prime Minister Harper to maintain and renew the funding agreements with the provinces for childcare programs. Cancelling the childcare funding agreements will represent a huge step backwards for women.
Women's groups urge Harper to stick to child care agreements
– Wed, 2006 – 03 – 08 14:30
Canadian Press
OTTAWA (CP) - Women’s groups are urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change his mind on child care. They marked International Women’s Day on Wednesday with meetings, demonstrations and news conferences urging the federal government to retain the child-care agreements signed with the provinces by the last Liberal government.
IWD 2006: Childcare is Key to Women's Equality
– Wed, 2006 – 03 – 08 15:57
On International Women’s Day, the National Association of Women and the Law and the Feminist Alliance for International Action call on Prime Minister Harper to maintain and renew the funding agreements with the provinces for childcare programs. Cancelling the childcare funding agreements will represent a huge step backwards for women.
Harper’s $1 billion cut deepens Ottawa’s child care crisis
– Fri, 2007 – 03 – 30 15:45
OTTAWA – Parents, child care workers and advocates joined together on a major Ottawa bridge this morning to protest the biggest child care cut in Canadian history – cut that makes an already bad situation worse for families in the nation’s capital.
Conservative capital plan won’t ‘create’ child care spaces
– Mon, 2007 – 01 – 01 05:00
A new study shows Stephen Harper’s promised “child care spaces initiative” is bad public policy that won’t deliver the much-needed accessible spots.
Urgent Appeal - Act today for child care : Give the Early Learning and Child Care Act a push
Bill C303, the Early Learning and Child Care Act, is a private member’s bill that, if adopted, will help Canada build a much-needed child care system.
Report Card: On early learning and child care
– Mon, 2007 – 01 – 01 05:00
Stephen’s work on child care has been Unsatisfactory. He has failed Canada’s children and their parents.
