B.C. NDP Leader David Eby is vowing to secure a new federal child care funding deal by Dec. 1 if re-elected, after confirming his family benefits from $10-a-day child care services.
Eby was asked by reporters during a campaign stop over the weekend about his family’s child care arrangements and confirmed his youngest child has a subsidized daycare spot.
The disclosure drew criticism from the B.C. Conservative Party, which said Eby’s family benefits from a highly competitive child care system that many families can’t access, leaving them to pay much higher fees.
Conservative candidate Margareta Dovgal released a statement on Oct. 12 arguing it is unfair for a high-income family like Eby’s to occupy a “plum” subsidized spot while roughly 90 percent of B.C. families remain on long waitlists or pay some of the highest market rates in the country….