Source:
Childcare Resource and Research Unit
Format:
Fact sheet
Publication Date:
17 Dec 2008
AVAILABILITY
See text below. Organized from most to least recent.
"If you want childcare, if you want real action on the environment, if you want justice for aboriginal Canadians, if you want a government that partners with municipalities and provinces instead of attacking them, you got to vote Liberal."
- Quoted in The Spec, September 28, 2008.
"He will try to scare Canadians. We need to offer them hope. We have so much to offer our people: learning and early child care for every Canadian child; better housing; education and medical care for our aboriginal fellow citizens; help for seniors coping with rising energy prices; better aid for students so that we can truly be a country where if you get the grades, you get to go; and a national strategy to make us both an energy superpower and an environmental leader."
- An Inevitable Election, Michael Ignatieff's Notes, August 28, 2008.
"The Conservatives have scrapped Liberal commitments to early childhood learning but their alternative monthly $100 benefit is both wasteful and insufficient to purchase meaningful day care"
- Speech in Toronto, October 13, 2006.
"The Conservatives have jettisoned Liberal commitments to early childhood learning, but their alternative, a monthly $100 benefit per child under six is both wasteful&emdash;it is paid to families who often do not need it&emdash;and inefficient&emdash; the benefit is not enough to purchase meaningful day care. A Liberal government should work with the provinces to develop a robust national early childhood learning strategy."
- Agenda for Nation Building, 2006.
"There are all sorts of ways in which we can spend public money that actually strengthens families. And I don't want to have rights talk made into a kind of apology for extreme conservative market capitalism…. I think there's a way of talking about rights that says we need some social investment and if we want to have strong families - want to have equality - if we want to have rights - then we have to stump up the public goods that make it possible for us to be equal and free at the same time."
- Interview on CBC, November 1, 2000.
"Much as deficit-reducing conservatives may lament the fact, the test of serious moral commitment to the family is a willingness to spend public money.. Modern families] need help to survive...effective child protection, universal access to health care, affordable child care, first-rate primary and secondary education - these are the building blocks of the protective arch that society must raise over its families. This institutional arch doesn't come cheap but those exponents of family values who won't stump up for it are just engaging in cheap talk."
- The Rights Revolution, 2000.
- Quoted in The Spec, September 28, 2008.
"He will try to scare Canadians. We need to offer them hope. We have so much to offer our people: learning and early child care for every Canadian child; better housing; education and medical care for our aboriginal fellow citizens; help for seniors coping with rising energy prices; better aid for students so that we can truly be a country where if you get the grades, you get to go; and a national strategy to make us both an energy superpower and an environmental leader."
- An Inevitable Election, Michael Ignatieff's Notes, August 28, 2008.
"The Conservatives have scrapped Liberal commitments to early childhood learning but their alternative monthly $100 benefit is both wasteful and insufficient to purchase meaningful day care"
- Speech in Toronto, October 13, 2006.
"The Conservatives have jettisoned Liberal commitments to early childhood learning, but their alternative, a monthly $100 benefit per child under six is both wasteful&emdash;it is paid to families who often do not need it&emdash;and inefficient&emdash; the benefit is not enough to purchase meaningful day care. A Liberal government should work with the provinces to develop a robust national early childhood learning strategy."
- Agenda for Nation Building, 2006.
"There are all sorts of ways in which we can spend public money that actually strengthens families. And I don't want to have rights talk made into a kind of apology for extreme conservative market capitalism…. I think there's a way of talking about rights that says we need some social investment and if we want to have strong families - want to have equality - if we want to have rights - then we have to stump up the public goods that make it possible for us to be equal and free at the same time."
- Interview on CBC, November 1, 2000.
"Much as deficit-reducing conservatives may lament the fact, the test of serious moral commitment to the family is a willingness to spend public money.. Modern families] need help to survive...effective child protection, universal access to health care, affordable child care, first-rate primary and secondary education - these are the building blocks of the protective arch that society must raise over its families. This institutional arch doesn't come cheap but those exponents of family values who won't stump up for it are just engaging in cheap talk."
- The Rights Revolution, 2000.
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