Andrew Wilkinson would scrap childcare fee reduction he complained is “very expensive”

BC Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson has consistently opposed John Horgan’s Childcare Fee Reduction Initiative that has reduced costs for parents of 63,000 kids.

When John Horgan introduced the initiative in Budget 2018, Wilkinson complained to Global News that the fee reduction was “very expensive” for government. (Global News Facebook Live, 29:30, April 28, 2018)

At the same time, BC Liberal Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Candidate Cheryl Ashlie campaigned against the program, calling it “the end of for-profit childcare” and criticized the BC NDP for “requiring [operators] to cap their fees.” (Cheryl Ashlie Op Ed, April 14, 2018)

While Wilkinson was calling childcare fee reductions “very expensive,” he was attacking John Horgan for asking the wealthy and big corporations to pay a little more. Wilkinson called for the cancellation of the EHT, the speculation and vacancy tax, and the income tax hike on the richest 2% (people making more than $150,000 a year).

Andrew Wilkinson and Cheryl Ashlie would cancel the fee reduction initiative and drive up childcare fees for parents of 63,000 kids.