Kids First Government Submissions
 Apr 2011: Response to the draft document "Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants: Recommendations from Birth to Six Months"
Oct 2010: Input on BC Family Relations Act White Paper
March 2010: Kids First Submission re Ontario's Bill
242, Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act
2009: Brief to the Finance Committee
for the Federal Pre-Budgetary Consultations
August
2008: Brief to the Finance Committee
for the Federal Pre-Budgetary Consultations 2008
August
2008: Kids First submission
to BC Early Learning Agency on all-day schooling for 3 to 5 year olds
Spring
2008: Kids First Submission to
the Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science, and Technology re: OECD
"Starting Strong II" Report and Kids
First Policy Recommendations
June
2007: Transcript
of Presentation and Q & A Re: Bill C-303 to HUMA
April
2007: Kids First Submission Opposing Discriminatory Bill C-303 (in
English and in French)
Fall
2006: Submission to Ministerial Advisory Committee
on the Government of Canada's Child Care Spaces Initiative
2006:
Kids First policy recommendations:
Inclusion, Equality, Empowerment, Sustainability Policy for Families
with Dependent Children
Oct
2006: Federal
Finance Committee Pre-Budgetary Hearings—Official Transcript—Kids
First presentation and Q and A
October
2005: Federal
Finance Committee Pre-Budgetary Hearings—Official Transcript—Kids
First presentation and Q and A
September 2005: Submission to the House
of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Pre-Budgetary Consultations
Oct
1998: Transcript
of presentation to Finance Committee Pre-Budgetary Consultations by
Cathy Perri, President of Kids First; Cathy Buchanan, Treasurer of Kids
First; and Bev Smith and Heather Gore-Hickman as individuals who are also
members of Kids First
April
1998: Presentation
to Finance Committee by Maria Conti, Ontario Rep for Kids First
Oct
1997: Presentation
to the Finance Committee by Cheryl Stewart for Kids First
Submissions by Others
Mar 2010 Ontario Bill 242--legislation regrading all-day kindergarten and all-day all-year in-school daycare:
Read Kate Tennier's Submission re
Bill 242
Bill 242 Submission of Jonas Himmelstrand
(member of Swedish groups Haro and Children's Right to Parents' Time)
and text of the attached speech
and sources.
Other Pro-Parent Policies
Liberal
policies:
1999: "Final
Report of the Sub-Committee on Tax Equity for Families with Dependent
Children"
The Liberal
government's abandoned policy stressed equality and dramatically
improving financial support for parental child care-see especially the
PRINCIPLES emphasizing respect for parental choice and equality for
our choices
From pensions for "stay at home mums"
to beer and popcorn: How the Liberal party reversed its policy on children
and families
Read the pro-parent Liberal Government Report
on Tax Equity for Families with Dependent Children
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