A Comprehensive Childcare Program

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

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FRIEDMAN Markets, Economic Welfare, Statistics Canada, COBB COBB, childcare programme, Cobb Cobb, Childcare Program, comprehensive childcare, government impose, social balance, comprehensive childcare programme, cobb cobb, 21st century,
Approximate Word count = 712
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)