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Matthew Lau: Child-care money shouldn’t be funding the revolution

Following child-care money indicates some is going to organizations whose politics are far outside the Canadian mainstream

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How do hundreds of thousands of tax dollars, including for anti-racism and child-care inclusion training, end up in the hands of a radical anti-Israel, anti-capitalist activist group in Prince Edward Island? These are the sorts of unhappy questions that arise when trying to follow the tens of billions of additional dollars governments have poured into child care since the federal government’s national child-care program launched in 2021.

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