KPL Debate: Children First!

[pnijjar]

I attended Wednesday's debate at the Kitchener Public Library somewhat reluctantly. I had been under the impression that the debate was for Kitchener Centre only, and I had already gone to one debate outside my riding. Somebody had to stuff the literature table with Fair Vote advertising, however, so I skipped gardening and made the trip. To my

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[silpheed_tandy]

About the idea to make it possible for kids to not have to go to an institution to be taken care of at a young age, by making it possible for parents to stay at home

[pnijjar]

It's socially and fiscally conservative in the sense that in advocating for publicly-funded daycare we are using the government as a crutch for work we should be doing ourselves. Also it is conservative in the sense that parents have traditionally stayed at home with their kids to raise them (mind you, families used to work together as a unit without a parent working outside of the home at all, but I guess that is too traditionalist to count