Quality child care for families

Every parent wants the best for their child and starting them on the right path begins at a very young age.

Greg Selinger and your NDP understand that providing accessible, affordable and high quality child care is a priority for parents. That’s why we’re working with child care workers and parents to build a quality system that is safe, affordable and emphasizes early childhood learning.

Together, we’re creating new child care spaces – 5,600 in the last three years – and more than 800 enhanced nursery spaces. We’re building new child care centres. And we’re training and recruiting more child care workers.

For parents that’s meant better quality child care that is the second most affordable in the country.

Hugh McFadyen is against public child care.

Hugh McFadyen isn’t interested in improving child care. He said “families are able to afford spending more” on child care. Instead, he wants to give parents a $100 tax benefit.

His plan won’t create a single new child care space and would mean big cuts to the child care budget - $105 million this year alone. Hugh McFadyen just doesn’t get what matters to Manitoba families.

Don’t let Hugh McFadyen turn back the progress we’ve made on child care.

Let’s keep building and improving our child care system.

With smart, practical solutions, Greg Selinger and your NDP are:

• Implementing Canada’s first province-wide online child care registry;
• Creating 6,500 new child care spaces and 1,000 enhanced nursery spaces by 2013
• Building new child care facilities – 54 total sites by 2013;
• Expanding physical activity programs for children in licensed child care centres and nursery schools;
• Investing in early childhood, play-based curriculum;
• Giving better training opportunities to child care workers; and
• Raising salaries and implementing a new pension plan for Early Childhood Educators to give to ensure there’s quality care for our kids;
• Offering recruitment incentive grants to encourage Early Childhood Educators that have left the field to return and work with our children.

Together, we can keep Manitoba on track and moving forward. Let’s keep building. Don’t turn back.