Lorrie Goldstein writes in his Toronto Sun editorial today again about the ridiculous Liberals’ new national socialist daycare plans. And being a sensible man, he naturally therefore has to entitle it: “Who are they kidding?”
Ken Dryden wants you to dismiss the findings of a major study on Canadian attitudes toward child care as nothing more than an expression of people’s “feelings.”
And it’s not hard to understand why. After all, Dryden, who is the federal social development minister, is charged with implementing the $5-billion national daycare program the Liberals are set to announce in tomorrow’s budget.
Meanwhile, the study, released earlier this month by the respected Vanier Institute of the Family, pretty much explodes every myth propagated by the Liberals about child care.
Including the one that claims all Canadians worship at the shrine of a state-subsidized, national daycare program.The contents of the study were lost in a Commons exchange last week, when Conservative MP Rona Ambrose challenged Dryden about bringing in a daycare program when the study found most parents would rather care for their kids at home.
[…] Then he patronizingly compared the survey’s results to asking people if they would like to eat “chocolate twice a day,” while at the same time asking them if they’d like to lose weight. The response to both would be 90% in favour, he predicted, adding people often tell pollsters contradictory things.
[…] The Institute also incorporated recently released Statistics Canada data into its research. Among the findings:
90% of Canadians believe that, in two-parent families, one parent should, ideally, stay at home and raise the children.
Daycare centres rank a distant fifth when Canadians are asked who they would prefer to care for pre-school children. Having a parent provide the care finished first, a grandparent second, another relative third and home daycare fourth.
Even in Quebec—which has a daycare program of the kind the Liberals plan to introduce—most people would prefer to have children cared for by a relative.
Canadians are almost evenly split on how they care for young children. While 53% are in some type of child care—not necessarily daycare—47% are cared for by a parent at home.
A growing number of parents are opting for care by a family member. Between 1995 and 2001, the proportion of children cared for by a relative rose from 22% to 32%. Daycare centre enrolment also rose, but less dramatically, from 20% to 25%.
Canadians place as high a priority on having the state provide financial help to parents who stay at home to look after children (32%) as they do on having the state assist parents who work outside the home and put their children in daycare (33%).
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