National child care program needed

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We almost instituted a national child care program. It was ready to roll when Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe joined with Stephen Harper to defeat the Paul Martin government. Mr. Harper immediately scrapped the program and replaced it with $100 a month for children under the age of six. This system did not allow for the creation of any new child care spaces, nor did it begin to cover the costs of day care for children.