"Child care is the No.1 issue for entrepreneurs," she said in an interview after the speech on Wednesday. "If employees can't get child care, there's no business to open up and there is no economic recovery." "If we could have had child care covered in the wage subsidy, that would have been great." Laideen Dockery is among those who knows how crucial child care will be to a full economic recovery. "This is not just a women's issue, this is an economic issue," Parekh said.

Source: CBC News September 23, 2020 23:43 UTC