= Working class families benefit
the least from budget.

» NORMAN GARCIA

di rh

Har per
on Canada’s working people
Acloser look t i

positive TOr
incomes. In fact, . exeaellhy

half

per cent to 15.5 per cent.

But for corporations, taxes
drop. By 2010 they will drop a
two full percentage points as

out. ‘
A study published by the
Canadian Centre for Policy

ra ee a

only

5.4 per cent o1 1a’s pop
tion) will take home 27.7 per
cent of Harper's tax cuts. Those

40,000
(nearly 50 per cent of the popu-
lation) get just over 20 per cent

ent.
upper-class
families will average capital

per year.
“The real damage to working

Rivard. "There is very ite in

p
families as a result.”

4 LABOUR AND SOCIAL

JUSTICE

1 hild

= The Harper gi
for Canadian children. norman carcia

HARPER GOVERNMENT UNDERMINES UNIVERSAL DAY CARE

Canadian kids take back seat

‘FORGET ABOUT IT says Stephen
Harper. There won’t be government-
funded day care in this coun!

In his very first budget, Canada’s latest
minority PM pulled the rug out from
underneath the previous government's
National Care Strategy, a multi billion
program. And in its place? A taxable $100
a month per parent allowance for kids
under 6. Not enough by a long shot..

“Day Care spaces can cost $600-800

+h d aegar aie) 1 aie)

p in the big
cities,” says Sue Milling,

head of the union’s
Education, Equality and
Politcial Education

tment
“Harper has trashed
the potential start of a
national day care pro-

ne Ss.

“We believe working families will see
through the Conservative smokescreen:
no new day care spaces will be created,
and the benefit is taxable, meaning that
millions of dollars end up back with
Harper’s government rather than into

good quality day care. Working families
deserve better,” says Millin;

“The Harper plan does not create
much needed day care spaces which are a
needed ingredient in a modern and com-
petitive economy,” says IWA Council

hai

conse-
quences.”
e union has _Bro-

Norm Rivard

posed I provincial
ild care agreements. as a spring board
to developing a universal, national child
care program.

ong with a number of child care
advocacy groups, the Steelworkers sup-
port the Child Care Code Blue Campaign

lion child care plan. To participate in the
campaign check out: www.childcareadvo-
cacy.ca

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