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Grandpere’s love builds a Viking ship in West Pubnico | SaltWireThe provincial Liberals went after the Nova Scotia government’s progress on child care during question period in the provincial legislature Tuesday, accusing the Progressive Conservatives of making little net gain in the creation of new spaces.
“The government left $123 million in child-care funds on the table because they didn’t do the work and submit an action plan. . . . Why can’t this government deliver on the child-care commitments that it made to the people of this province, even considering the fact that so much federal money is left sitting on the table waiting to be used?”
Churchill said the government promised 1,500 new spaces for child care, and the lack of progress is affecting the skilled labour shortage and doctor recruitment, “and yet we do not see urgent action from this government when it comes to creating new child-care spaces.”Druhan said that she understands the challenges around waiting lists for child-care spaces but the government has opened 2,000 new licensed spaces across the province while decreasing fees by half.
Druhan repeated that the government has created more than 2,000 new spaces, but Regan said that a freedom of information request “showed that, as of May, there was only a net gain of 28 child-care seats in the province since July of 2021.”“This is completely inadequate. . . . We’re all hearing from desperate parents who cannot find infant spaces anywhere in HRM.
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