Privatization Of Child Care

There is no denying that under Harper's government privatization subtle increased. Through carefully created polices Harper had suavely placed restriction on the public sector without publically proposing his privatization agenda. One policy that was implemented by Harper's government that was a topic of interest in the most recent political elections was the Child Care Plan. Instead of implementing the agreed upon child care system that was similar to Quebec that provides affordable quality care, Harper instead gave direct payments to parents of about 100 dollars. Although it seemed like extra income being provided, families soon found out that by tax time they had to pay back some of the child benefit back. While handing out child payments to families may have seemed to have an impact on child care, it subtle lowered the funding being provided to provincial child care programs. …show more content…
From the perspective of a neo liberalist, Harpers proposed polices partnerships between the public and private sector lead to opportunities to capitalize on P-3s. These P-3s i would argue promoted the ability to increase profit for the public sector when in reality it only provided profit for private