After decades of broken child care promises, why believe the Liberals this time?

Michael Ignatieff will continue on his tour of recycled and lifted announcements today with a promise about child care. Sound familiar? It should. The first time the Liberals made this promise was in their 1993 ‘Red Book’:

“A Liberal government, working with the provinces, will implement a realistic and fiscally responsible program to increase the number of child care spaces in Canada. In each year following a year of 3 percent economic growth, a Liberal government will create 50,000 new child care spaces to a total of 150,000.”
– Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal ‘Red Book’, 1993, p. 38.

Even with record economic growth in Canada, the Chretien/Martin Liberals created no new spaces in the 1990s. Instead, they waited until the dying days of a minority government to actually do anything — 12 years, three majority governments, and seven back-to-back surpluses of over $67 billion later.
The reason why Michael Ignatieff feels the need to announce a national child care program now is because his party failed to deliver their past promise to Canadian families.
Why should we believe the Liberals this time?

Abbotsford NDP Candidate David Murray with Ed Broadbent at Halifax convention 2009

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