I am not conceding that childcare is a government responsibility …
But if the government does want to put its fingers into this particular thorny mess, there are better and worse ways to do it. Quebec’s example is one of the poorer approaches to the issue, as borne out by an MIT study that found kids in Quebec’s universal daycare have more physical and psychological problems, their parents become less attentive parents who are more depressed and have more tense marriages, and the whole scheme is a net money loser for the province. A longer discussion of this is in today’s Winnipeg Free Press.