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Re: "Daycare funding dries up," March 10. Kingston families are
right to expect the McGuinty government to provide the needed funding
for child care. After all, that was a promise that Dalton McGuinty
himself made when he was vying to become premier. "Ontario will have a
sustainable child-care system," he boasted in 2003, while pledging to
make a $300-million investment in child care.
...
The emerging crisis, not just in Kingston but across this
province, is one of the McGuinty government's own making. Instead of
investing provincial dollars, the McGuinty Liberals relied on annual
federal funding, which has now ended and has left a $63.5-million gap.
It is incumbent on Dalton McGuinty to make good on his promise of long
ago and meet his government's commitment so that no Kingston child
loses access to quality, affordable, community-based child care.
New Democrats call on the premier and his ministers to help
municipalities preserve their non-profit child care spaces by
earmarking investments to sustain Best Start programs.
- reprinted from the Kingston Whig Standard