Last week Statistics Canada reported that children attending day-care performed better in the first years of school than children who did not attend any kind of preschool programmes. This highly publicized finding is particularly interesting looking at a potential government launch of a comprehensive childcare programme, which would allow more women to enter the workplace, ready preschool age children for public schools, and prepare Canada for the 21st century. This paper will examine the expected reactions of Friedman, Galbraith, Okun and Cobb and Cobb towards the child care proposal.

Markets work well, so the government does not need to impose a childcare programme (which would be inefficient anyway, since governments fail to work well). The government needs to have a minimal paternalistic role in society. Special interest groups impose their agenda on the government, which in effect is ignorant to the negative implications on our laissez-faire marketplace, and by extension, our freedom. S

This programme would have a positive effect on income redistribution, since more women are able to enter the workforce, therefore perpetuating equality efficiently. By providing comprehensive childcare to every working mother and child, there is a balance created both in the educational system among students and in the workplace among the sexes which downplays the effects of bad luck and increases an individual's abilities and chances to succeed in the marketplace. Efficiency would no longer need to be bought at the cost of inequalities in income and wealth and by the social status and power that go along with it. While the incentive to succeed may not be as prominent due to greater balance in education and the workforce, the leak in the bucket would be a patched up, therefore creating greater economic and social efficiency. Education is the key to overcoming inequality. Financing education will give returns in terms of both equality and efficiency, and starting at the pres!

The benefits of the comprehensive childcare programme greatly outweigh th

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