Collection search - Our Children, Ourselves = Nos enfants, notre vie : [sound track only]

SPRING, Sylvia

2001-0163

Sound

1 of 1

1985

Canadian Union of Public Employees

producer/scenario/photography, Sylvia Spring

Audio portion of a multi-media presentation about the childcare crisis in Canada and its impact on single parents, working couples, immigrant families, farmers and day-care workers. Includes interviews with various childcare activist groups, such as the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Canadian Day Care Advocacy Association (CDCAA), which are pressuring the government to introduce enlightened childcare policy and vastly improved funding. The interviewees are: Cindy Bates-Tremblay, a teacher and single mother; Linda Choquette, a clerk for Health and Welfare Canada; Michel Choquette, a dry-wall apprentice; Magalie Van Kooy, an immigrant and childcare worker; Marilou Jackson, a dairy farmer; Wendy Thompson, a CUPE member; Jeff Rose, national president of CUPE; Lyne Westlake, coordinator of CDCAA; Gaetanne Morisette, executive member of CDCAA; Marion Dewar, Mayor of Ottawa; and Jack London, a member of the Federal Task Force on Childcare in Canada. <35mn 13s>

English

Open

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