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Election 2021

Vote quality affordable child care for all

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Child Care Now’s Election Toolkit

What is in this kit

  • How to advocate for child care in the 2021 election

  • What we want from the political parties and candidates

  • Quick background facts

  • How and where to campaign for child care

  • Ask your Candidate to Sign the Candidate Pledge, and Share the Result

  • What to say when you campaign for child care

  • Key Messages

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Election Toolkit PDF

Here is a printer-friendly version of our  handy 2021 Election Toolkit.

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Lisa Kelly

Lisa Kelly has been active in the Union movement for over 25 years. She is a lawyer by trade, having worked as in-house counsel for the Canadian Auto Workers for two decades. In 2011, Lisa took on the position of Director of Education for the CAW before its merger with the CEP to become Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector union. Lisa currently works as the Director of the Women’s Department of Unifor and is a frequent speaker on topics such as women and the labour movement in Canada as well as LGBTQ rights at work.  She has experienced first-hand the challenges of a piecemeal, expensive, non-universal child care system and wants to be part of a lasting systemic solution.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Candidate Pledge” module_class=”boardMember” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ module_alignment=”left” link_option_url=”https://timeforchildcare.ca/2021/08/25/candidate-pledges-to-download/” border_width_all=”3px” border_color_all=”#000000″ global_colors_info=”{}”]

Candidate Pledge Download

Ask your local candidate to sign the Child Care Pledge and read more on how to use the pledge on social media.

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Window / Lawn Signs

Click to find a selection of window/lawn signs and how to use them for maximum effect!

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Sign the petition

The 2021 federal election results could either accelerate the federal government’s progress in building a universal Canada-wide system of early learning and child care or bring it to a screeching halt. Child care advocates are seeking the following specific child care policy commitments from each of the main federal political parties.

Petition for child care

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Voter Pledge

Find out how to take the Voter Pledge and share on social media, or in your community.

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2021 Federal Election:

Where the parties stand on early learning and child care

Four of the five main federal parties are fielding candidates across Canada in the election now underway. We have studied their platforms and analysed their announcements. So far, this is where they stand on early learning and child care.

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Election 2021 commitments: what child care advocates want from political parties and candidates

The 2021 federal election could either accelerate the federal government’s progress in building a universal Canada-wide system of early learning and child care or bring it to a screeching halt. Child care advocates are seeking the following specific child care policy commitments from each of the main political parties and from candidates. 

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Leila Sarangi

Leila Sarangi is the National Coordinator of Campaign 2000: End Child and Family Poverty, and Social Action Director at Family Services Toronto. Her work includes fostering a culture of advocacy and social action in the community social services sector through research, education, policy development, campaign and community building activities. Leila’s experience spans 20 years of building campaigns, programs and services advocating for poverty reduction, and within an intersectional anti-oppression feminist framework.

 

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Ruth Bancroft

Ruth has worked in child care for more than 30 years. Since 1978, she has been the Director of the Langara Child Development Centre, which is an inclusive campus child care program serving children from 18 months to 5 years of age. Ruth has experienced child care as an early childhood educator as well as a parent of two children. She’s been involved in the development of Supported Child Care in Vancouver and is a member of the Vancouver Local Supported Child Development Advisory Committee. She also serves as a board member of the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC. [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]