Child Care 2020, is Canada’s largest child care conference in a decade. The conference kicked off in Winnipeg on November 13 bringing together a diverse group of nearly 600 early childhood and child care educators, academic and policy researchers, parents and community, union and political leaders all with a shared goal – a universal early learning and child care system.

Stephen Harper’s announcement today does nothing to change the basic truth about his government’s income-splitting proposal. The plan is unfair and benefits primarily a small minority of the richest Canadian families.

More than 1,000 representatives of the Coalition syndicale pour la libre négociation [Union Coalition for Free Negotiation] gathered this past Thursday at the Montreal Convention Centre to adopt a mobilization plan.