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Michelle Ferreri

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • Peterborough—Kawartha
  • Ontario
  • Voting Attendance: 67%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $106,196.43

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Context: House Hansard - 280 - Feb/12/24
Ms. Michelle Ferreri
  • Feb/12/24 1:22:27 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, what a backward place we work in. Why are we even having this legislation? It should not have even been here in the first place. Why are we expanding it when it should not even exist? It does not make any sense. Now they say, “Well, you know what? We only have so much time. We've got to expand it because we shouldn't have put it in there in the first place. Are you going to support it or what?” This is so backwards. If it had not been put in place from the first, we would not even be here having this discussion. This legislation should not be offered, period.
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Context: House Hansard - 203 - May/31/23
Ms. Michelle Ferreri (Peterborough—Kawartha, CPC)
  • May/31/23 8:06:41 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech; I work with her on HUMA, listening to witness testimony. One of those testimonies was from Jennifer Ratcliffe, the director at Pebble Lane Early Learning, who said: We are already finding that we are struggling to expand, and when opportunities arise, we have to turn them down. We are simply not able to move forward, because of the lack of funding. We've had to turn down thousands of spaces, me and other providers I know. We're just not in a position to accept them, because we can't access the new spaces funding and we are having to operate under the fee caps. At a time when the wait-lists are outrageous, and there are child care deserts across the country, what would my colleague say to Ms. Ratcliffe?
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