The Conservatives will not implement a Liberal Party program.

This is surprising? Especially a program cobbled together in the dying days of a government in an attempt to buy last-minute votes?

The Tories have promised to provide an allowance of $1,200 a year for every child under age six -- but they'll also do away with the former Liberal government's $5-billion child-care deal with the provinces as of March 31, 2007.

It's a decision that'll create a myriad of problems for parents who will suffer because of a lack of child-care spaces, says the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada.

"The demand for the service is not going to go away and so by cutting back on the service side of it, people will be standing there with their cheque and nothing to buy with it," said the association's executive director, Monica Lysack.

Consider that last sentence. People in search of daycare, with money in their hands, but unless the government pays for the daycare spaces, none will be created?

I knew I should have taken economics in school. I was under the impression that as long as there was a customer, someone would create the goods or services desired, arriving at a mutually acceptable price for the exchange.

Maybe, just maybe, some daycare providers will step up and create daycare spaces with parents signed up and ready to pay.

Parents.

Daycare providers.

Children.

No government.

If this Tory government accomplishes nothing else, I hope that it at least teaches people in this country that you don't need the government to facilitate everything. In fact, we really need the government for very little. Create and regulate the monetary system, and then let us handle the rest.

Amazing that people seem to have forgotten that.

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