Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2007-05-08 09:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Laurel Rothman (National Coordinator, Campaign 2000)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"644029\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644030\" data-originallang=\"en\">Good morning. Thanks for the opportunity to talk with you today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644031\" data-originallang=\"en\">Campaign 2000 is a broad anti-poverty coalition. It's a cross-Canada coalition, founded in 1991, of more than 120 organizations to promote and secure the full implementation of the unanimous 1989 House of Commons resolution to eliminate child poverty in Canada. Clearly we've not achieved that by the year 2000, but we continue to urge all governments to keep their commitments and meet their obligations. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644032\" data-originallang=\"en\">We're a diverse range of partner organizations in every province and territory, including low-income people's groups, parents' groups, child care providers and advocates, housing and health care providers and advocates, unions, women's groups, social planning councils, food banks, teachers, social workers, faith communities, aboriginal groups, and groups representing immigrants and refugees. Our partners in early learning and child care services include the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada; the Canadian Child Care Federation; the Childcare Resource and Research Unit; SpeciaLink, the National Centre for Child Care Inclusion; and the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, to name a few. There will be a list of partners with the brief we submit.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644033\" data-originallang=\"en\">Since our inception we have been committed to a balance of income supports and high-quality community services that are essential and that evidence indicates are needed to significantly reduce and eradicate child and family poverty and improve the life chances of all children. We seek to raise public awareness and to bring to light evidence-based and reasonable policy solutions. We meet with all levels of government, and we're non-partisan. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644034\" data-originallang=\"en\">Martha is going to address some other aspects of the situation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644035\" data-originallang=\"en\"> We're here to support the legislation, Bill <a data-HoCid=\"2166674\" href=\"/bills/39-1/C-303/\" title=\"An Act to establish criteria and conditions in respect of funding for early learning and child care programs in order to ensure the quality, accessibility, universality and accountability of those programs, and to appoint a council to advise the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development on matters relating to early learning and child care\">C-303.</a> We're very much in agreement with the perspective that child care services must be accessible for all children, not only low-income children. At the same time, a real system of high-quality and accessible child care services is an essential cornerstone of a poverty reduction strategy. I might add that the experience in Quebec, the only province where the child and family poverty rate has continuously gone down since 1997, is illustrative. I think we have to look at it. Perhaps we can talk about that later.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644036\" data-originallang=\"en\">From our point of view, universality means that when a full system has been developed, all children will have access to good services if their parents choose it, whether they're urban or rural, low income, middle income, or well-to-do, have a mother in the paid labour force, or they're aboriginal, Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, or a newcomer to the country. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644037\" data-originallang=\"en\">There are a number of reasons we feel that the best way to meet the early learning and child care needs of low-income children is within a universally accessible system. Martha is going to address that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644038\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"644029\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644030\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bonjour. Nous vous remercions de nous permettre de nous adresser \u00e0 vous aujourd'hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644031\" data-originallang=\"en\">Campagne 2000 est une vaste coalition pancanadienne anti-pauvret\u00e9, fond\u00e9e en 1991, qui r\u00e9unit plus de 120 organismes dont la vocation est de promouvoir et d'assurer la mise en oeuvre int\u00e9grale de la r\u00e9solution adopt\u00e9e \u00e0 l'unanimit\u00e9 en 1989 par la Chambre des communes pour \u00e9liminer la pauvret\u00e9 chez les enfants au Canada. De toute \u00e9vidence, le but n'avait pas \u00e9t\u00e9 atteint en l'an 2000, mais nous continuons \u00e0 faire pression aupr\u00e8s de tous les gouvernements pour qu'ils tiennent leurs engagements et s'acquittent de leurs obligations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644032\" data-originallang=\"en\">La coalition se compose de divers organismes partenaires dans chaque province et territoire, notamment de groupes de personnes \u00e0 faible revenu, de groupes de parents, de responsables et de porte-parole de services de garderie, de responsables et de porte-parole de services de logement et de soins de sant\u00e9, de syndicats, de groupes de femmes, de conseils de planification sociale, de banques alimentaires, d'enseignants, de travailleurs sociaux, de groupes confessionnels, de groupes autochtones et de groupes repr\u00e9sentant des immigrants et des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s. Nos partenaires des services \u00e0 la petite enfance comprennent l'Association canadienne pour la promotion des services de garde \u00e0 l'enfance; la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration canadienne des services de garde \u00e0 l'enfance; Child Care Resource and Research Unit; Trait d'union - R\u00e9seau national pour l'int\u00e9gration des enfants ayant des besoins particuliers en service de garde et la Coalition ontarienne pour l'am\u00e9lioration des services de garde d'enfants, pour n'en nommer que quelques-uns. La liste de nos partenaires figure dans le m\u00e9moire que nous vous avons remis.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644033\" data-originallang=\"en\">Depuis notre cr\u00e9ation, nous nous sommes consacr\u00e9s \u00e0 assurer l'\u00e9quilibre entre des services de soutien du revenu et des services communautaires de qualit\u00e9 essentiels et indispensables pour r\u00e9duire et \u00e9radiquer la pauvret\u00e9 des enfants et des familles et pour donner de meilleures chances \u00e0 tous les enfants. Nous nous effor\u00e7ons de sensibiliser la population et de proposer des interventions raisonnables et fond\u00e9es sur des donn\u00e9es probantes. Nous rencontrons les autorit\u00e9s de tous les niveaux, et nous sommes non partisans.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644034\" data-originallang=\"en\">Martha va vous pr\u00e9senter certains aspects de la situation actuelle.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644035\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous sommes ici pour donner notre appui au projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"2166674\" href=\"/bills/39-1/C-303/\" title=\"An Act to establish criteria and conditions in respect of funding for early learning and child care programs in order to ensure the quality, accessibility, universality and accountability of those programs, and to appoint a council to advise the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development on matters relating to early learning and child care\">C-303</a>. Nous sommes tout \u00e0 fait en faveur de la perspective selon laquelle les services de garderie doivent \u00eatre accessibles pour tous les enfants, et non pas uniquement les enfants des familles \u00e0 faible revenu. N\u00e9anmoins, un v\u00e9ritable r\u00e9gime de services de garderie accessibles et de grande qualit\u00e9 est la pierre angulaire de toute strat\u00e9gie de r\u00e9duction de la pauvret\u00e9. J'ajouterais que l'exp\u00e9rience du Qu\u00e9bec, qui est la seule province o\u00f9 le taux de pauvret\u00e9 des enfants et des familles a constamment r\u00e9gress\u00e9 depuis 1997, est tout \u00e0 fait exemplaire. Nous devons nous en inspirer. Peut-\u00eatre pouvons-nous en parler plus tard.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644036\" data-originallang=\"en\">De notre point de vue, l'universalit\u00e9 signifie qu'une fois qu'un v\u00e9ritable syst\u00e8me de garderie aura \u00e9t\u00e9 mis au point, tous les enfants auront acc\u00e8s \u00e0 de bons services si leurs parents en d\u00e9cident ainsi, que ce soit en milieu urbain ou rural, quel que soit le niveau de revenu de la famille, que la m\u00e8re exerce ou non un travail r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9 ou que les parents soient autochtones, qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois ou nouveaux venus au Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644037\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour diverses raisons, nous estimons que la meilleure fa\u00e7on de satisfaire les besoins des enfants des familles \u00e0 faible revenu en mati\u00e8re de services de garderie et de d\u00e9veloppement de la petite enfance est de proposer un syst\u00e8me universellement accessible. Martha va vous en parler.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"644038\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci.</p>"
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