Child care workers and other members of the public met at the Vancouver Public Library yesterday for a panel discussion on universal public child care.  Read the release at Canada Views for more information.  Here’s a preview:

Keynote speaker Susan Prentice said that child care is an urgent social justice issue. “Yet it is instead becoming an area in which commercial interests are operating. Child care needs to be taken out of the buyer-beware market,” she said. Sharing some of the key findings and recommendations of About Canada: Childcare, which she co-authored with Martha Friendly, Prentice put forward strong arguments for a publicly funded and delivered system.