Governments ones at fault

Regarding “Investing in the Future;” two women are working on a three-year study to remove barriers for women. Serious. While knocking on doors, I listened to a woman who was desperate for childcare for her baby. She had a good job waiting for her. I listened to a qualified childcare worker who after graduating from Holland College worked there with no benefits and such low pay that she had two other jobs to pay rent in a modest apartment and would never afford a car.

In 2015, I knocked on doors explaining a plan for a National Day Care Program that would include giving childcare workers the respect and wages their jobs deserved.

Fast forward to today; cheers for a three-year study.

Fast forward the future; the child who needed daycare will be roofing a new day care centre and the parents will be living on a small pension after losing out on well paid careers.

I’m not criticizing the Status of Women for the grant. I’m criticizing federal and provincial governments and those who elected them. The tax credits are not going to change diapers. And we all know “---- happens”.

Lynne Thiele,

Stratford

People shouldn’t live their lives feeling they have to be what others think they should be, and people should never try to force others to be someone they aren’t because of the way they are viewed as.