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Acknowledgements The opinions and recommendations in this report, and any errors, are those of the author, Special thanks to Kayleigh Russell and Adam and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Kilfoyle for research assistance throughout this publishers or funders of this report. [...] Editorials in both the New York Times and the Globe and Mail have underlined the importance of expanding union membership and the capacity of workers to collectively bargain as being critical to addressing the economic inequities we see in Canada and the US today (The Globe and Mail 2023; Kristof 2023). [...] Behind the growth of ‘non-standard’ forms of employment are a variety of factors, but two of the most significant are corporate and government strategies to create ‘labour market flexibility’ in order to attract or retain mobile capital, a longstanding and wide ranging process which has under- mined labour standards and protections, and the more recent emergence of gig-work based corporations who. [...] A review of the research on this, undertaken in 2014, concludes that “the impact of (mandatory elections) has been the subject of a number of studies and while their findings differ on the extent of the impact, they are unanimous in its direction. [...] Studies show for every dollar invested in childcare, between $1.50 and $6.00 are returned to the local economy due to the parents who are able to work, child benefits and also the spending of the child care centre in the local economy.8 Studies of the economic impact of child care in Mantioba find that for every $1 spent on childcare, $1.58 of benefits is returned to the Manitoba economy (Prentice.