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Push childcare as part of ‘public good’ in coming election, educators told

Push childcare as part of ‘public good’ in coming election, educators told One of the NDP’s elder statesmen says the debate about a national childcare program needs to be reframed if backers want to have any success in the next federal election. Stephen Lewis told a national gathering of some 500 childcare educators and activists that childcare should be framed as a “public good” as Canadians debate the issue going into the next federal election. “I would argue that early childhood education and care is a public good,” said Lewis, a former Canadian ambassador to the UN. “A public good… View Article