Free Daycare

As you are no doubt aware, the great country of Peru recently elected Ollanta Humala to be their next president. He made some fairly standard leftist campaign promises like raising the minimum-wage and a state pension for seniors, but what surprised me was his promise to provide free daycare.

Here in Canada, there was a push at one point by the Liberal government of Paul Martin to institute free national child care but that never came together and instead we got the Universal Child Care Benefit from the Conservatives, which is basically $1,200 per year in income that parents get for every child they have under the age of 6. Unfortunately that falls quite a ways short of making child care free for Canadians.

So, my questions is: Does this mean that Peru is going to have a more robust welfare state than Canada?