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Tories' child-care plan falls flat
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Sep 16, 2006 09:12pm |
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| Category | Poll |
| Media | Newspaper - Toronto Globe and Mail |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 12, 2006 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | OTTAWA — The Conservative government's $1,200 child-care payouts are seen as a nice gesture from Ottawa that will ultimately have little impact, according to the government's own public opinion research.
The Department of Human Resources and Social Development contracted polling firm Ipsos-Reid to conduct 16 focus groups of 10 people each across the country to get feedback on the government's child-care plan, which promises to create 125,000 new spaces in addition to monthly payments of $100 to parents for each child under the age of 6.
"The government's proposed child-care plan is viewed quite favourably by the majority of focus-group participants," the researchers write in the report.
But the government also heard that child care is so expensive that the money will likely be spent on other things instead. |
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