Foreign Takeover Of Ontario's Child Care

Child care centres across Ontario have received letters from a firm connected to Australian multinational ABC Learning Centres, the world's largest child care corporation, offering to purchase their centres. The Canadian arm of this operation is 123 Busy Beavers Learning Centres. "The experience in Australia with ABC Learning Centres should serve as a warning to Canada," said Diane O'Neill, Executive Director of Aladin Child Care. "Corporate child care sent community-based programs into decline, increased government spending and costs to parents while quality, access and affordability suffered. We need Premier McGuinty to take immediate action to protect community-based programs from this threat," stated O'Neill. ... http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2007/02/c3340.html

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