(Montreal) If it is brought to power, the Parti Québécois (PQ) commits to investing 1.17 billion over five years for a “100% CPE” childcare network, announced Chief Paul St-Pierre Plamondon and its spokesperson for the family, Véronique Hivon, at a press conference Friday in the CPE La Petite-Patrie, in Montreal.
“All the new places that must be developed must be developed in CPE”, pleaded Mr.me Hivon, which also proposes to launch “a vast project on accessibility” to allow private daycares to convert to the public.
“We must stop this multi-speed system […] which is like a monster with many heads where no one can find it, ”she said.
Mr. Plamondon, him, qualified the current network of “anarchic, chaotic and incomprehensible”, as there are “all kinds of categories of establishments”, and deplored the fact that many parents “are on lists of ‘ waiting for years ”.
Asked about the costs associated with her proposal, Mme Hivon replied that “it is a matter of priority”, arguing that the establishment of four-year-old kindergartens may cost Quebecers much more.
She called for “moving away from this obsession of putting all your eggs in the same basket of nursery schools for four years”, which was one of the flagship promises of the government of François Legault.