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After a while you begin to wonder
if politicians have any money sense at all. To make this ill-conceived scheme
work, he proposes to get the Feds to kick in 60% of the cost. Bulletin to Mulcair:
Whether it comes from the Feds or the provinces, there is only one set of taxpayers, and in Ontario, those
taxpayers are already paying $40B in child benefits.
Moreover, many of those over-burdened
taxpayers are seniors and childless singles, so this Mulcair proposal only
ads insult to injury to those folks.
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ERIC DUHAIME | QMI AGENCY
New Democrat leader Thomas Mulcair
just announced his masterpiece promise for the 2015 election: a $15-a-day
national child-care program.
The idea sounds seductive. But do you
seriously think the nanny state can properly take care of your babies?
Let's first take a closer look at
Mulcair's own sandbox. His home province has had a $7.30-a-day program for more
than 17 years. And there are very good reasons why no other jurisdiction on the
continent has copied the self-proclaimed "Quebec model."
Quebec taxpayers now pay more than
$52 a day for each baby in the Soviet-style system.
As soon as a woman finds out she is
pregnant, she rushes to put her name on a waiting list for a daycare spot. Like
in the good old USSR, it's the queue that makes you pay.
Desperate mothers or fathers who want
to go back to work try to bribe a public servant to get to the top of the
waiting list.
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