Are all preschool business, going to get $50,000 so all business are on a level playing field??? Or are Private Business get out of luck??

Not from the looks of it. Another intersting story to follow through for those who may have the time for such research.

I suspect that unless one has a museum or art gallery, there is little hope. ;-)

The following shows that there is a reduction in the money being given to create new spaces, which this essentially is.

http://www.earlylearning.ubc.ca/documents/2007/Financial_FS_Jan_07_Final_2.pdf

"Major capital grants for new licensed spaces will not be available; and

Operating funds for new licensed spaces will be subject to a “program intake cap”"

"funding for:
• Child Care Resource and Referral will be reduced by 77%
• Grants that help offset operating costs for licensed family and centre-based programs providing services for
children under six will be reduced by 27% (effective July 2007 through March 2008)"

So, maybe one or more of the three MLA's had a finger in this. Which is good, on the assumption we need the space and no one else was willing to provide them becasue there simply is not much money in that business and it takes people with a passion for helping children who need the service.

It looks like the governemnt is continuing to fund the users of the service but reducing the subsidies to the service providers.

So, moral of the sotry is - locate the service in an area where others pay for things such as playground equipment (Fort George Park) and other things to keep a child interested during the day (a museum geared to active participation)

Unlike the University daycare facility, for instance, which provides their own playground equipment and supervised outside play space.

What a screwed up world we live in. We celebrate that there is more day care facilities, sort of funded by government and yet if they didn't tax us so bad and ran the government more efficiently it would be easy for a two parent family to have one at home, raising the child as it should be. For the single parents having the extra dollars from less taxes they then would be able to afford more of the luxuries in life.

True enough.

And if one parent was at home, the household would not require washers and driers, dishwashers, microwaves, vacuum cleaners, more than one car, going out for fast food, precooked meals, etc. etc. Alll those things we gather around ourselves to make life easier for homecare so that there is enough free time to go to work to buy those things which allow both parents to go to work.

Not only would the entire economy come to a grinding halt and the world go into a depression until the pendulum has swung back ...... but those parents who do not get along would have to reconsider any thoughts of separation and divorce.

;-)