(Quebec) The Parti Québécois promises to convert the private network of daycare centers into CPEs, with the exception of home daycare services, and to add 15,000 new places. Chief Paul St-Pierre Plamondon dismisses emergency aid for parents waiting for a place.
Posted at 11:14 a.m.
If it takes power on October 3, the Parti Québécois would immediately launch a process to add 15,000 new places in CPEs, which would be added to the 37,000 places promised by the current government.
“Investments to develop these places are day 1. So, as quickly as possible,” promised Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who made his announcement in the childcare service. family attended by his children, Laurette and Maurice, in Quebec. The cost for the creation of these new places is estimated at 225 million.
The PQ also promises to convert all of some 119,000 places in private settings into CPEs, which excludes home childcare services, which are often much smaller, which could nevertheless ask to be converted. The political formation would inject 543 million per year for five years to achieve this.
But the PQ closes the door to the establishment of emergency assistance, as proposed by Quebec solidaire, to help the parent who, for lack of daycare, cannot reintegrate into the labor market. According to him, the solidarity are “wrong way” with this “financial incentive to stay at home”. He denies offering anything to parents in need immediately, recalling his “purchasing power allowance” announced on Wednesday.
Faced with opponents who have all made electoral commitments to increase the number of daycare places, the PQ believes that it alone has the “credibility” to complete the network and guarantee universal access. “It is important to remember what Pauline Marois and the Parti Québécois have done in terms of CPEs,” pleaded Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon, asserting that CPEs are the “best model in the world”.
A registration in the law
The PQ also undertakes to table a framework law that would guarantee the right of the child to have access to a place in daycare, a bit like the right to have a place in school. The liberals of Dominique Anglade promise the same thing.
The Educational Childcare Services Act already recognizes that “every child has the right to receive, until the end of primary education, quality personalized educational childcare”. But “this right is exercised taking into account the organization and resources” available, in particular.