One step forward, two steps back: Child care policy from Martin to Harper

How Ottawa Spends, 2009-2010: Economic Upheaval and Political Dysfunction

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 110-133

  Collier, Cheryl ^a   Mahon, Rianne ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Institute of Political Economy   (Canada)

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16. See Martha Friendly, Child Care Policy in Canada: Putting the Pieces Together (Don Mills: Addison-Wesley, 1994).
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24. Christa Japel, Richard E. Tremblay and Sylvana Coté, "Quality Counts! Assessing the Quality of Daycare Services Using the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development," Choices 11, no.15 (2005). The provinces committed to non-profit provision were Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Alberta, British Columbia and New Brunswick made clear their intention to fund commercial provision. In the former provinces, commercial provision accounts for the lion's share.
25. Susan Phillips, "Rock-a-Bye, Brian: The National Strategy on Child Care," in Katherine Graham, ed., How Ottawa Spends 1990-91 (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1991), 180 and 169.
26. Human Resources and Social Development Canada (hrsdc), What We've Heard: Summary of Consultations on the Child Care Spaces Initiative 2007 (Ottawa: hrsdc, 2007). Available at www.hrsdc.gc.ca/cgi-bin/hrsdc-rhdsc/print/print.asp?Page _Url+/ enpublic_consultations; accessed 26 January 2008.
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