SOCIOL 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Child Care, Child Poverty, Parental Leave
22 Apr 2019
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Canada lacks a nation-wide system of universally accessible, affordable, high quality, regulated daycare. During the second world war, the dominion provincial wartime agreement established funding for childcare for women working in wartime. When the funding came to an end, this sparked protests and outrage among canadians. In quebec, parents have access to regulated and affordable childcare ( or per day, modified more recently) Tremblay discusses the cost and scarcity of childcare, and its impact on families. Universal child-care would benefit the economy- greater tax revenue. Leads many canadians with no guarantee about whether they can return to work post- pregnancy; take longer parental leave= less income tax revenue circulating in the economy. Quebec: the cost increases gradually as income increases to a maximum cost of 21 per day which would apply to families earning more than 380. Toronto: per month, in quebec. On other cities, most infant care exceeds per month.
