News Release Exercise: Tory Child Care Plan

The press release on the Harper government's Universal Child Care plan which was launched during June of last year has left some unanswered questions. This questions include:

1. Which group of group of parents would be receiving the $100 per month payment under the Child Care Benefit?

2. Where would the child care spaces be located?

3. Why in the past have child care plans failed to materialize?

4. What types of programs have been set up by the Canadian government to encourage the creation of new child care spaces?

After reading news items about the child care plan one of the questions has been midified and three others have been added to the mix. The question about which group or type of parents would be recieving the $100 per month payment under the Child Care Benefit was removed. This is becuase upon reading No Tory child care plan as waits grow for Spaces on http://www.ctv.ca/ answered that question. Regardless of their income parents have received $1.2 billion in payments which began in July 2006.
Three news questions which need to added are :
1. Why still as of January 2007 has a clear plan on how to create child care spaces not been created?

2. Why are only Parents with children under six years of age receiving the $1, 200.00 a year payment?

3. Why haven't the Conservatives created the child care spaces Canadians need?

One potential interview would be with Lynell Anderson, who is the Project Director of Making the Connections: Childcare Policy (CCP) Project. His phone number is listed on the Child Care Advocacy Association of Ontario website. Another potential interview would be with Kathy Graham. She is the Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Daycare Operations of Ontario. Her phone number is made available online at http://www.childcaretoday.ca/contactadcos9.php/.

Opposition parties untie to fight big-box daycare written by Tonda Maccharles was an article found in The Toronto Star archives which relates to the Harper government's Universal Child Care plan. The article first appeared on http://www.thestar.com on Nov. 1, 2007. The sources used in this article are a spokesperson for a child-care coalition and politicians. In the article generated one of the sources also worked for a child-care coalition while others were provincial ministers, chief executive officers and project directors.

The purchasing of small for profit daycare facilities in Canada by Australian corporations and what needs to be done about this were the issues raised in Opposition parties unite to fight big-box daycare. The issues raised in this article did not really answer any of the questions generated. This could be because the article focused more on health care becoming a business whereas the questioned generated were geared towards generating information about the ways in which the Harper government's Universal Child Care Plan will affect Canadian families.