Poilievre says Tories will back studying fed’s child care bill but did not endorse plan  – National | 24CA News

Conservatives will help sending the Liberal authorities’s child-care invoice for additional examine, get together Leader Pierre Poilievre stated Wednesday, however he’s stopping in need of endorsing the nationwide plan.

Speaking to reporters earlier than his weekly caucus assembly, Poilievre stated his MPs will again sending Bill C-35– presently being debated within the House of Commons– to a parliamentary committee.

“But our view is there should be affordable child-care spaces, and there should be support for parents regardless of what choices they make.”

In December, Families Minister Karina Gould tabled the laws, which seeks to enshrine the federal government’s nationwide daycare plan into regulation.

Under that plan, Ottawa has inked offers with provinces and territories with the purpose of lowering daycare charges to a median of $10 per day by 2026.

As proposed, the invoice would commit Ottawa to sustaining long-term funding, making it more durable for a future authorities to undo.

Pressed Wednesday about whether or not a Poilievre-led authorities would honour the prevailing agreements, the Tory chief stated as soon as the invoice arrives at committee, MPs will have a look at what outcomes are literally being achieved.

“We’re going to study this proposal and we’ll we’ll have a very clear policy before the next election.”

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The Conservatives’ lack of help for the Liberals’ nationwide daycare plan turned some extent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attacked the get together over through the 2021 federal election.

At the time, former chief and Ontario MP Erin O’Toole campaigned on scrapping agreements with provinces in favour of ushering in a tax credit score, which he argued would higher assist decrease revenue households.

Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri, who this week has debated the Liberal invoice within the House, has slammed the plan as “subsidizing the wealthy,” whereas failing to deal with the wait instances and labour shortages that exist for fogeys searching for baby care.

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Feb. 1, 2023.

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