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DEVOLIN DISCUSSES NDP CHILD CARE BILL

Mr. Barry Devolin (Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, CPC): Mr. Speaker, last night members of this House were supposed to debate the NDP child care bill, but for the seventh time the NDP have played procedural tricks to delay debating their own bill; a bill that would take away $2.4 billion a year in direct support to Canadian parents. It would also stop the provinces from creating the types of child care spaces that worked best for them; more than 60,000 of which have been announced so far.

Could the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development tell this House the effects the NDP bill would have on the progress that our government has made so far on child care.

Mrs. Lynne Yelich (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, CPC): Mr. Speaker, for the seventh time now, the NDP have run away from this disastrous child care bill; a bill that they called their number one priority. However, this is no surprise because this bill would hurt every single investment in child care implemented by this government. It would take choice in child care away from parents and from provinces. It would scrap the $2.4 billion universal child care benefit that arrives every year for two million children. And it would put an end to the creation of more than 60,000 new child care spaces that have been announced by the provinces.