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Vaughn Palmer: Failure to keep $10-a-day child care promise comes back to bite David Eby

Opinion: The lawyer-premier and his doctor wife are benefiting from a program that ought to be reserved for more needy recipients than themselves

VICTORIA — Premier David Eby stumbled this week when he confirmed that his family has availed itself of two of B.C.’s heavily subsidized and very limited number of $10-a-day child care spaces.

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When Eby was asked Monday when asked if he and his wife had “ever benefited from the $10-a-day child care program,” he replied, “Yes, my family, has yes.”

The NDP leader’s admission raised eyebrows, and rightly........

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