The Liberal Party of Canada’s website features a press release responding to conservative child-care critic Rona Ambrose’s statement on CTV’s Canada AM this morning:
“You’re not addressing their needs … So we just ignore 90 per cent of women across the country?” [By adopting the liberal childcare plan]
While the Liberal press release titled “Rona Ambrose Wrong on Child Care Plan” states:
According to Statistics Canada, fully 84 per cent of families have parents who are both in the workforce and 70 per cent of women with children under the age of six are employed
So who is right? Seems to me the most current census would have some answers.
However I cannot find any of this info in a quick glance on the StatsCan 2001 Census Data Website. Guess this one can be chalked up to Spin… For now. I have a hard time believing that either suggestion would simply ignore 90% of the women in Canada or help over 70% of them.