Do you Remember? Or do you know..
- The destruction of social supports under Gordon Campbell in the early 2000s wasn’t just a “policy shift.” It was a severing of lifelines — especially for women, single parents, and children.
- $10/day daycare? It’s a lottery. And while politicians boast about it, 90% of families can’t access it.
- Women were — and are — forced to work, even during pregnancy, even while parenting alone, even with trauma. There is no choice. There is coercion disguised as “opportunity.”
- And now? Those kids raised during that harsh era — they're 20-something, and many are gone. To fentanyl. To hopelessness. To being unsupported, unheard, unseen.
- Teachers fought the government for 16 years, and still classrooms are full, education assistants are underpaid, and kids with special needs fall through cracks that have become chasms.
The Missing Generation and the Cost of Abandonment
There’s a terrible irony in hearing politicians talk about $10/day daycare when only 10% of families can access it.
I tried to raise my child myself. I didn’t trust daycare, especially not after Gordon Campbell slashed the supports single mothers relied on. I was forced — while pregnant — to attend job search programs to qualify for assistance. That was 23 years ago. Nothing has changed. They’re still running the same playbook, now aimed at people 55+.
And where are those kids now? The ones born in that wave of cuts? Many are in crisis. Some are lost to fentanyl. Some are struggling to survive under the weight of trauma they inherited — from poverty, disconnection, overstuffed classrooms, parents who were forced to “cope” instead of raise.
Women and children are not supported in BC. They never have been. We’re expected to work no matter what. There’s no such thing as “mothering” as valid work. No room for grief, no room for healing, no room for choosing a different path.
This isn’t just a social failure. It’s a human tragedy.
THINK ABOUT IT!!!
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