Wow - the province is deeply in debt, the budget isn't balamced - and this. Bunch is looking for major funding !! I think they are a bit out of touch ??

Like the famous Harry Hammer would've likely said...if you can find someone to work for $10 a day, I'll give you $10 a day childcare.

Great idea but what are these people willing to give up in order to get it?

I'm always amazed that someone asks me (a tax payer) to pay them to help out with their family finances.

Lets do a little ball park math here to get an order of magnitude idea of the cost per child for $ 10 per day daycare

Lets assume each day care worker looks after 4 kids for 8 hours
Lets assume the worker gets paid $ 12/hr
Lets assume there are benefits which come to about 30 % of their salary
Lets assume costs for support and management staff add another 30 % to their salary
That means the worker costs the system about $163 per day ,but brings in $ 40 per day
or the other way of looking at this is that there would be a shortfal of $30 per day per child for just the labor component - ignore any infrastructure costs. Over a year thats around $ 10,000 per child .
Anyone care to comment if my math is out to lunch ?

I think we should only have to pay $10 for oil changes to out vehicles. While we're at it, my grocery bill should only be $10 as well. I think when I fuel up my pickup truck I should only have to pay $10.

The world owes me a living and the government should have to pay for the majority of my children's expenses. After all, I was forced to have children and all of you should now pay for them.

Non partisan my ass. This comes straight from the social engineering Marxist/NDP coalition hand book.

I guess the problem would be that no one is willing to change their lifestyle to match their income. When my wife and I got married, it was a given that we would both work until we decided to have kids. During those years, we used only my salary to live on. The house we bought, the car (1) we drove and all the expenses we had all came from my cheque. We lived within our budget and did not touch her earnings. When we had our daughter, my wife stayed at home and raised her until the daughter turned 13. My wife went back to work and we then started looking around for a new place to live. The savings we had came in very handy at that time to buy that nicer place. That never happens today !!!!

Stephanie Smith with the BC Government and Service Employees' Union . . . don't these folks ever stop their assault on the public trough . . . they are over paid and under worked . . . make far more than equivalent jobs in the private sector . . . and now they want us to pay for their kids?
This of course could be possible if we got 8 Billion a Year from Ottawa . . . like the folks in Quebec. Of course we will have to wait until Adrian and the Dippers destroy the BC economy so we are Elligible for Handouts like Quebec.
Then as a "Have-Not" Province we would be in line for handouts . . . like we were in the 90's . . .
In the meantime Stephanie . . . RAISE YOUR OWN FRIGGIN KIDS . . . i raised mine without the Govt . . . and they are functioning, critical thinking, productive citizens today . . . unlike YOU ! ! !

Ken280: You say this bunch cannot run a Kool Aid stand. Don't get mad but please explain why B.C. is a "HAVE" province and B.C. has the second highest credit rating in Canada next to Alberta with a AAA- rating,if in fact that they could not run a Kool Aid stand.

Spend the money on FREE BIRTHCONTROL instead!

If you CANNOT afford to raise them
DO NOT have them!!!!!!

I do NOT want to supplement any SPERM BANK baby makers!
let them do it themselves!

To all of you telling people not to have children unless they can afford them.

What happens to a family that suffers a serious illness or injury? What happens to a family that faces an employment reduction or lay-off? What happens to a family that goes through a separation or divorce? What happens if a family has to step in and help care for another ill, injured or senior family member?

All of these issues are unpredictable and can dramatically change the financial situation of any family. In the vast majority of cases someone has to stop working. It is not a choice it is a necessity. When someone is forced to stop working they stop paying as much income tax. They stop paying into CPP. They stop paying into EI. They often end up unable to afford MSP premiums and go onto premium assistance. They are no longer able to put any money into their RRSPs nor are they able to save any money for their child's education through a savings account or RESP.

These types of situations have a massive butterfly affect on the overall economy both presently and well into the future.

When did we lose all sense of community and humanity and start using the term socialism as if it is some kind of terminal disease? Are you seriously suggesting that we refuse to help the people that genuinely need help? That may be all fine and dandy from your comfortable situation but not everyone in BC shares the same quality of life that you take for granted. Not everyone needing assistance is in that position due to self-infliction.

Don't get socialism confused with communism. Way too many people make that mistake.

This issue is not as simple as looking at the cost of the program itself. One must look at the short term AND long term cost to society to not have such a program in order to develop a truly informed opinion.