The objectives of this research are as follows: • To determine Canadians’ attitudes towards child care programs, their level of importance and how they are beneficial • To measure support for a role for government in the provision of child care • To measure awareness of support for the proposed $1,200 allowance per child being proposed by the Conservative government. [...] Given the public’s support for a strong child care infrastructure, it is not surprising that a strong majority of Canadians endorse the plan announced in 2004 to create a national early learning and child care system that has a goal of providing affordable child care to all parents who need it. [...] Solid majorities of Canadians think that funding to the provinces to create child care spaces will do a better job of “creating enough affordable child care spaces to meet the needs of Canadian parents” (62%), “ensuring access to child care in all provinces and regions of the country” (60%), “helping prepare children for school” (55%) and “ensuring access to child care for low income families” (55 [...] Those who voted for all of the opposition parties are also much more likely to think that the funding of child care spaces will do a better job and it is also notable that those who consider the lack of affordable child care spaces to be a very serious problem and those who say that this issue will influence their vote in the next 10 C A N A D I A N S ’. A T T I T U D E S. T O W A R D. N A T I O N [...] Business leaders say tax breaks will not lead to more child care spaces* 14 C A N A D I A N S ’. A T T I T U D E S. T O W A R D. N A T I O N A L. C H I L D C A R E. P O L I C Y -. M A Y. 2 0 0 6 Ending funding of research into child care The vast majority of Canadians oppose the Conservative plan to stop funding research into child care and to stop supporting the provinces in the monitoring of the
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