The McDonalds of Child Care? Or A Welcome Relief for Working Parents?
October 30, 2007 by kate baggott
Filed under Baby Care
My co-citizens in Canada are worried about the arrival of “big box” day care in Canada. Here is one comment on the plan to open ABC Learning Centres, run by an Australian company, from the Toronto Star.
“Our biggest concern is that foreign owned big-box child care is going to drive a stake through any notion of a national child-care system,” said Paul Moist, the national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents some 7,000 Canadian child-care workers.
“We intend to make child care an election issue.”
Moist said the union will tap into a $5 million …read more
