(Rimouski) So that every child has a place in daycare, Québec solidaire promises the creation of a “new model of micro-CPE” of 8 to 20 places, and would expand the network of public daycare centers by investing 610 million per year to create 37,000 new spaces.
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If QS is elected, he will submit his plan “PRIORITY CPE: one child, one place” to create 37,000 places in CPE in a first term. The party therefore wants to complete the network of CPEs, the “number one choice of parents”. He considers that François Legault and the CAQ have abandoned the parents, while the waiting list for a place in daycare has increased “from 42,000 to 52,000”.
“The implementation of the solidarity plan would allow thousands of families to regain balance, thousands of women to return to the labor market. For each child who does not get his place in CPE, it is a parent who must put his career on hold, most often women, ”denounces the party.
QS therefore wants to build new CPEs, but believes that there is a “missing link” in the network, “where the number of children does not justify the creation of a ‘regular’ CPE and where family daycare centers do not respond to demand.
He therefore also wants to create “micro-CPEs”, nurseries with 8 to 20 places that could be set up in existing premises, those of a municipality or a company, for example. They will offer “a more rewarding and stimulating work environment for educators than a family environment” and “in small teams of 2 to 4, they will be able to help each other and offer flexible time slots for families”, indicates the party. These micro-CPEs would be particularly intended for less populated regions, where the shortage of daycare places is detrimental to the attractiveness of young families.
Québec solidaire points out that there is a lack of 1,236 places in the Bas-St-Laurent, and 506 places in daycare, a real “nuisance” for the future of the regions. He relies on the candidacy of the founder of the Ma place au travail movement, Myriam Lapointe-Gagnon, candidate for the riding of Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata, and Carol-Ann Kack, candidate in Rimouski, to give himself credibility. .