Rally for National Child Care System in Canada

Tuesday, March 8 · 3:30pm - 5:30pm

Ryerson University
Victoria and Gould St
Text taken from Facebook Group

This year is the 20th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and Canada still scores LAST amongst industrialized nations in our provision of early childhood education and care and family support policies.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child believes in the rights of young children, especially their right to the same supports and services as older children. Supporting families with affordable, high-quality options for early childhood learning and care has benefits for child development and for the social and economic well-being of communities.
Yet Canada does not have a national policy framework for early childhood education; our provincial policies vary, which results in inequity for children and families.

Children in Canada and their families need high-quality, accessible, inclusive and PUBLICLY FUNDED early education and care for their children. Canada has made many attempts at implementing a national publicly funded system, but have failed each time. We hope that this will be our last attempt because we WILL succeed in convincing our government to take responsibility for Canadian children, and to give our families a real choice in the care and education of their children.
It is time for Canadians to demand a system that values children and families, and makes early childhood education and care a fundamental part of our country. We need to ask our government to commit to building the child care system that Canadians want.
We will be holding a rally in Toronto on March 8th, 2011, and encourage our neighboring cities, provinces and territories to follow our lead.
For more information, or to get involved, please email us at: nationalchildcarenow@gmail.com