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Gee, Wally, what about all those kids who need daycare? Well, Beav, the Harper government isn’t interested in them. It scrapped the previous Liberal government’s plan for a national daycare system, and instead bestowed $100 a month on families with children under six. That did absolutely nothing for parents who must work, but can’t find or afford daycare.

As Calgary mom Rachel McDougall-Sutherland wrote then-Liberal MLA Kent Hehr in 2013: “The $100/month taxable child payments from the federal government do not cover 1/10th of regular daycare expenses in Calgary, and only act as a talking point in debate to defer the issue of equal rights for women in Canada.”

Now, the federal Tories are gloating over their owngenerosity in giving universal child caremoney to families, who will get a payment worth six months of benefits, of $1,040 if they have, say, two children aged eight and two. Just before the election, of course. Yet, the average monthly daycare cost for one child in Calgary is well over $1,000.

This is just another way the Harper government punishes women who work, and consequently punishes their children. These families need quality, affordable and available daycare. This is insidious sexism because women who can’t, won’t or don’t stay home with their children, are being discriminated against. It is 2015 everywhere but in Harperland, where sexist sentiment against working mothers runs rampant.

It’s not just women living below the poverty line who are getting the short end of the federal government’s stick. Throw out the stereotypes about single moms in low-income jobs. There are other kinds of single moms, too.