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The throne speech is over but advocates vowed to step up their fight yesterday against the Conservatives' controversial child care plan.

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"We weren't surprised," said a disappointed Kira Heineck, executive director of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care. "There's a lot that can still happen."

The coalition is part of a nationwide Code Blue campaign, which has collected nearly 28,000 signatures on an open letter to the prime minister.

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The Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada said it will press the federal government for $1.2 billion a year to create licensed day care.

Meanwhile, the Institute for Canadian Values praised the plan to give money to parents instead of "bureaucracies."

- reprinted from the Ottawa Sun