News from the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada
Cross-Canada Federal Pre-Budget Public Hearings
The deadline for applications to appear before the federal finance committee is July 31st; the deadline for written submissions is August 15th. Child care advocates from all across Canada are encouraged to apply to appear before the committee and to share a brief written submission to demonstrate public support for affordable, high quality, universal child care in Canada. For background material in preparing submissions have a look at the CCAAC website for Budget 2007 resources. Recommendations can be found in our Advantage Canada submission: http://action.web.ca/home
/ccaac/alerts.shtml?x=93812&AA _EX_Session=ba187d963f5f83259a4 3ca20229a8b86 Please contact Elizabeth Kingston, Clerk of the Standing Committee on Finance, before July 31st at (613) 992- 9753 or e-mail: fina@parl.gc.ca. Provide the group’s name and presenter with address, phone and e-mail contact information and preferred city of presentation. Submissions should be no more than 5 pages in length and include a 1-page summary priorizing your proposals. For more info go to: www.parl.gc.ca/FINA. The current schedule of hearings is as follows:
Week of September 17: Ottawa
Monday, September 24: Iqaluit
Wednesday, September 26 and Thursday, September 27: Ottawa
October 1: Winnipeg; October 2: Regina; October 3: Calgary; October 4: Victoria
October 15: Charlottetown; October 16: Halifax; October 17: Rivière-du-Loup; October 18: Montreal
Monday, October 22: London, Ontario
Tuesday, October 23 and Thursday, October 25: OttawaLet’s tell this federal government that child care must be a priority in their next budget!
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