Subsidized child care not helping low-income families: operators

Showroom7561, 12 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

some of these families have said the money they’ve saved on child care has helped them buy a second property.

If this is true, everyone should be furious. We’ve been trying to find childcare for our two grandkids for YEARS. Their mother is in healthcare, and if we weren’t able to care for them (at our loss), she wouldn’t be able to work or survive.

Why are daycare services even offered to families who aren’t in desperate need? Those families can afford a babysitter.

Single parent homes, low-income homes, parents who work in an industry in crisis (education, healthcare, etc.) should be at the top of the list for $10 a day childcare.

Son_of_dad, 13 days ago

No wonder the wait lists are so long

SatansMaggotyCumFart, 13 days ago

Is this a massive problem or a couple people and what is their concern about what the money is spent on?

sbv, 13 days ago

Yeah, a systematic breakdown of who is able to use the program world be more helpful than anecdotes.

hemko, 13 days ago

Or just make daycare free for all like in civilized world?

applepie, 13 days ago

Yeah but than they could not run this provocation slop to get "hard working folk" hot and bothered about the "free riders"

streetfestival, 13 days ago

With greedflation these days, one’s hardpressed to buy lunch for $10. People who are in a position to buy a second property being eligible for such hugely subsidized daycare is nuts imo

Fiivemacs, 13 days ago

It’s this type of behaviours that justifies some people’s destire to abolish extra money/grants/sense of entitlement just because people had sex and had kids.

streetfestival, 13 days ago

Fair enough. I’m pro supporting families myself. I’m against wealthy people helping themselves to things intended for working class families. It sounds like the government didn’t put the necessary checks and balances in place to ensure the subsidies go to those who need them

girlfreddy, 13 days ago

These subsidies cost Canadian taxpayers at least $6.03 billion, or roughly $214 per taxpayer every year. Source

Maybe we could take half of the O&G subsidies and tax breaks to properly fund daycares instead.

streetfestival, 13 days ago

Taxpayer dollars going back to taxpayers (and increasing their living conditions) instead of corporate executives and shareholders of businesses that are destroying our planet and causing all sorts of problems for us and other living creatures?! What a radical idea. I’m all for it

m0darn, 13 days ago

As a parent with a kid in child care, my feeling is that it’s more efficient to make programs available to everyone, and manage wealth disparity with effective taxation.

I think people are more likely to support the funding of programs that they can use. And it’s better to avoid segregating children by economic status.