Jean's Posts

Jean Crowder, MP (Nanaimo-Cowichan):

Madam Speaker, I am rising on a question that I raised in June with regard to the number of children living in poverty in Canada. I was quoting numbers of over 100,000 children in British Columbia, but I want to put this into a national context.

In an article in The Vancouver Sun on September 26, Paul Kershaw indicated a number of grim statistics. He says:

It was not a surprise to read that the majority of residents in Lake Cowichan said they would like an early learning centre to be the partner in the construction of a new elementary school.

In Canada, more than 70 percent of mothers with very young children are in the workforce but there are only regulated child care spaces for about twenty percent of their children.