29,000 serious occurrences including serious injuries, abuse, neglect, lost children and deaths. In a meeting between 2 CICPO Team Leads and Liz Sandals, Liz stated that the injuries were mainly scraped knees and elbows, the fires were things like the smoke alarm going off because of burnt toast and the deaths were SIDS. This is, of course, not to mention that many, many daycare centres were running on long expired licenses and had not even been inspected on time. The Ministry has been so back logged that even THAT part of their due diligence wasn't even being met. It's disgraceful.

They can't really offer up any valid excuses for what's in the AG report. What they CAN do and have been doing, with significant success, is to redirect the blame....to us. The new public awareness campaign continues to point to us. The HCCA, in a recent article, brings up the AG report and that in answer to it, they are calling on all home daycares to become regulated. If that doesn't suggest that the AG report was about us, then I must be overly sensitive.

I met with a town council member who is also a prominent member of our community and ran for PC MPP in the last election. She is going to bring this up to her Riding Association and see what they can help me do to start up a grass roots public awareness campaign to directly rebut what the Ministry and HCCA are putting out there. In addition, it will be a good opportunity to make providers and families aware of what's really going on and allow them a chance to have input into the regulations as their posted for public input throughout the regulatory process. I'm hopeful, that if I can get legs under this thing, that it will go from constituency to constituency via local events similar to the meet and greet I held for part of Lisa MacLeod's campaign tour. If this is something you or anyone else would be interested in participating in, let me know and I'll keep you posted on progress.

You're not the only one who never followed politics. I've never really been bothered with it...till now. Now it's pretty much all I think about.....until I go on vacation in 2 weeks and leave it behind. Who am I kidding? I'll still be thinking about it.....lol....