$10 a day childcare is very squarely an LPC program. The LPC have specifically commit to expand the program in their platform. The CPC have pledged merely to honour the existing commitments- in Ontario’s case, the one ending in March.
The unavoidable connection to be made here is that subsidized daycare is on the table this election. Everyone knows who brought it in and who can be expected to extend it.
This certainly isn’t helpful to the CPC. If it gets traction, it puts them on the spot to either commit to perpetuating something they were not, at its outset, supportive of, or to not commit to upholding it. Either they grudgingly accept a core LPC policy, or they’re seen not to. From the LPC it would have been a predictable if adroit political move. From a provincial conservative government it’s a bit of a kick in the dick.
Yup, because Trudeau famously follows the advice of those in supporting finance roles. I remember how effusive his minister of finance circa last fall was in her praise of his handling of the finance portfolio, and good he was at heeding the advice he was receiving.