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...passing out government cheques at polling stations if it wasn't thoroughly illegal

wait now: July 9 - Prime Minister Trudeau announces $1.3 billion for Surrey-Langley SkyTrain extension

the federal government has announced $1.3 billion to expand the Expo Line SkyTrain from Surrey to Langley. The 16 km, eight-stop extension would go from King George Station in Surrey to 203 Street in Langley. Preliminary work expected to start Tuesday; Surrey, Langley mayors delighted with announcement.

Those printing presses at the BoC will be smoking, churning out all that pork.

More of Trudeau's pre-election cross-Canada giveaway tour!  Everyone's a winner!

July 8, 2021: Canada announces first early learning and child care agreement with the province of British Columbia --- In the recent federal budget, the Government of Canada laid out a transformative plan to build a Canada-wide, community-based system of quality early learning and child care. It committed to working with provincial, territorial, and Indigenous partners to put a system in place. Today’s historic first agreement, with British Columbia, is making this plan a reality in Canada.

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, and the Premier of British Columbia, John Horgan, today announced an agreement that will significantly improve early learning and child care for children in the province. As part of this agreement, the Government of Canada will invest $3.2 billion over the next five years to help improve regulated early learning and child care for children under 6 years of age in British Columbia.

Under this agreement, the governments of Canada and British Columbia will work together to improve access to quality, affordable, flexible, and inclusive early learning and child care programs and services. British Columbia and Canada agree on the goal of $10 a day child care, and will work together towards achieving an average parent fee of $10 per day for all regulated child care spaces for children under 6 by the end of the five-year agreement. By the end of 2022, British Columbians will see a 50 per cent reduction in average parent fees for children under the age of 6 in regulated child care.

Today’s agreement with Nova Scotia is a big step forward to making $10-a-day child care a reality across the province, and delivering much-needed support to families and communities as we build back better from the pandemic.

Just give parents the money instead of subsidizing fees.  Buying votes, the Liberal way.

Where is this extra money for this new spending coming from Liberals?  They have no plans to ever balance any budget.  They borrow and charge it to the taxpayer to fund their election goodies to get re-elected.

With more people going to work from home post-pandemic we need childcare less than ever.  The Liberals need to be voted out, we're already never going to recover from their spending.

If Canadians re-elect them they deserve everything coming to them.  A country full of BMW owners living paycheck to paycheck.

Quote from: waldo on July 13, 2021, 08:44:45 pm

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July 8, 2021: Canada announces first early learning and child care agreement with the province of British Columbia

July 12: Nova Scotia child-care fees to drop to $10 a day by 2026 under new $605M deal --- New federal-provincial agreement will also reduce fees by half by the end of next year

July 23 - joining British Columbia and Nova Scotia, the Yukon signs on... also today, Alberta announces the beginning of formal talks/negotiation!

The federal government and Prince Edward Island have agreed to a new funding deal that aims to reduce child-care fees on the Island to $10 per day by the end of 2024.

The funding will also cut child-care fees in half by the end of 2022 for children under six who attend regulated child-care facilities, according to the federal government.

Quote from: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

This ambitious timeline goes to show not only how dedicated P.E.I. is to making life more affordable for families, but it's also an example of how working closely with the federal government means real change happens fast.