{"id":594,"date":"2005-12-05T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=594"},"modified":"2005-12-05T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T23:19:00","slug":"mr-harpers-plan-will-only-pay-14-cents-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Harper&#8217;s plan will only pay 14 cents an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, I&#8217;m a big government guy so I prefer the Liberal child care plan to the one Harper announced today. However, with Harper&#8217;s policy out there, this will lead to an honest discussion about the merits of state run child care versus an individual&#8217;s right to decide how&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;what&#8217;s that? Oh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20051205.weldaycar1295\/BNStory\/specialDecision2006\/\">never mind<\/a>:<br \/><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">[Martin] criticized Mr. Harper&#8217;s child care plan, saying that it would probably only give parents &#8220;roughly $25 a week&#8221;.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>True to form, the Liberal response is to complain that the 5 billion Harper will spend on child care over five years amounts to chump change. This is in &#8220;stark contrast&#8221; to the&#8230;uhh&#8230;5 billion Martin will spend on child care over five years.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>HILARIOUS UPDATE:<\/em> <\/strong>On the National tonight, Keith Boag reported that the Liberals will be making their first &#8220;major&#8221; policy announcement of the campaign. This announcement is&#8230;I swear I am not making this up&#8230;the Liberals child care plan which currently calls for 5 billion over 5 years, will be extended to pay 10 billion over 10 years. Oh man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, I&#8217;m a big government guy so I prefer the Liberal child care plan to the one Harper announced today. However, with Harper&#8217;s policy out there, this will lead to an honest discussion about the merits of state run child care versus an individual&#8217;s right to decide how&#8230; &#8230;what&#8217;s that? Oh, never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}