Krystal Churcher, chair of the Alberta Association of Childcare Entrepreneurs, speaks with Alberta Primetime host Michael Higgins about the group’s new national campaign.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Michael Higgins: You’re leading a national group on child-care reform that’s pushing for a shift in control of the national program away from the federal government. How would provincial autonomy make a difference at this juncture?
Krystal Churcher: We currently have this $10-a-day program that’s rolling out federally, designed by Ottawa, by a government that has never regulated child care, never had jurisdiction over child care, and doesn’t build or operate child care.
So I think that removing our federal government from this and giving it back to the provinces where they have jurisdiction would allow our provinces to really work with families and operators to create a system in the provinces that works, that isn’t based on a federal ideology, that it should only be one way.
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