Last Week, The Pas MLA Amanda Lathlin addressed the funding issues for child care services in budget 2019.

 

Lathlin stated that Manitoba parents need access to affordable, high quality child care but budget 2019 appears to be putting child care further out of reach for parents in Manitoba.

 

Page fifty in the budget indicates an over one point four million dollar cut from child care, which will mean less support for kids in daycare and early childhood educators.

 

The wait list for child care is still growing and there are nearly eighteen thousand children currently on the wait list.

 

Lathlin added that child care continues to be put out of reach of parents because of inadequate funding spaces and costs forcing them to delay their return to work or not return at all.

 

She chided the Pallister government for not committing their own funding for new child care spaces and believes that federal funds should enhance investments in child care and not backfill the lack of provincial funding.