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3:00 p.m. — Singh reveals first steps toward ‘universal and affordable daycare’

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NDP leader Jagmeet Singh was in British Columbia today to promise $10 billion to create 500,000 daycare spots in Canada over the next four years.

That would be the first step in Singh’s plan to create universally affordable daycare across the country.

Singh sounded a familiar note at the event, complaining that the Liberals have been promising affordable childcare for decades without delivering.

“Liberals promised child care twenty-six years ago. The children who were born the year the Liberals first promised a national child care plan are now looking for child care for their own kids,” Singh said, at a bustling daycare in Vancouver, as children plummeted down a slide behind him.