corporate daycares want a dei program?
of all the oppressed and marginalized groups in society, for profit childcare providers are the least of my concerns. the subsidy system that harper brought in was the most inefficient, market-breaking thing imaginable, making daycare providers wards of the state with federal contracts that looked like lockheed martin deals. it was crazy. i'm not a fiscal conservative, but childcare is a basic service, and it can't have this unsustainable model attached to it.
the simple reality is that if people actually wanted to pay for expensive childcare spots then the providers that skipped out of the subsidy system wouldn't be going bankrupt. they are failing due to lack of demand; they say so themselves. the market is speaking, and it's choosing the cheapest spaces possible and driving the expensive ones out of the market. in response, big daycare wants government to step in and hand out higher corporate subsidies to stop their business model from failing.
it looks like hypocrisy, but it's actually normal. this is how markets actually function in real life - they fail without government regulation.
the system that the liberals brought in was less inefficient than the system it is trying to replace, but it's still extremely wasteful. as people clearly want the cheapest daycare options possble, the government should listen to them and start looking at bringing back the dryden plan.
in the longrun, what we want is government run ece centres at cost, not expensive private nannies, subsidized by taxpayer dollars.