No Tory child-care plan as parents face long waits, rising fees

“They’re really over a barrel,” said Monica Lysack, executive director of the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada.

“They don’t have a plan. ...They haven’t created a space. Parents are being caught in the middle of this cut-and-run approach.”

Conservatives are handing out cheques worth $1,200 a year (minus taxes) for each child under six. But they’re running from the fact that there are registered spaces for fewer than 20 per cent of kids under 12, Lysack said.

Parents - regardless of income - have received $1.2 billion since the first payments were mailed in July, according to the government.

“Great,” said Lysack. “But it’s not child care. Even they acknowledge that.”



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