Memo to Singh: the NDP enabled the demise of Canada’s only national childcare program

Now Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, having anted up $30-billion for childcare, is negotiating again with the provinces.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, pictured during a press conference on Feb. 23. Singh should have a chat with Ken Dryden, who as Liberal social development minister spent 2004 and 2005 negotiating federal-provincial childcare agreements, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

April 28, 2021

OTTAWA—Accuracy is not a prominent feature in today’s public affairs and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh probably doesn’t expect people to remember 2005 events—certainly, he himself doesn’t seem to have any such recall. But if only for his own credibility, Singh should try to get things into som...

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