Why on earth does anyone with a household income of more than $500,000 need to have their daycare costs covered by taxpayers?

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That’s a question British Columbia voters should rightly be asking after it was revealed that Premier David Eby, who has a salary of $227,111 and is married to a doctor, has his toddler daughter in a subsidized daycare space.

The NDP ran on offering $10-a-day childcare in 2017, long before the Justin Trudeau Liberals in Ottawa attempted to make it a national program.

The program began rolling out in 2018 and eight years on covers only about 10% of the province’s licensed childcare spots. That Eby and his well-to-do family are taking up one of those spots should be concerning to voters, but it shouldn’t be shocking to anyone who pays attention to such programs.

Quebec launched its $5-a-day childcare program in 1997 with the promise that it would help low-income parents take part in the workforce. The........

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