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BC Liberals pledge $10- to $30-a-day daycare
BY , Oct 9, 2020 7:26 PM - REPORT AN ERROR
Smoke from wildfires burning in the U.S. obscures the downtown Vancouver skyline as Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson waits to pose for a party photograph, during a campaign stop in North Vancouver, on Sunday, October 4, 2020. An election promise by British Columbia Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson to intervene in the city of Surrey's transition away from the RCMP is drawing fire. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
The British Columbia Liberal Party is promising daycare at $10 a day for low-income families and rates that would increase from that price based on income.
Party Leader Andrew Wilkinson says the $10 rate would apply to families with household incomes under $65,000 if the Liberals win the Oct. 24 election.
There would be a $20 a day rate for families making $90,000 and $30 a day for those over $125,000.
Wilkinson says the plan would cost $1 billion in its first year and a Liberal government would begin implementing the plan immediately but he did not say when it would be complete.
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