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Today's action started not inside Committee Room 1 but just inside the front doors of City Hall, where a group of several dozen parents, many accompanied by their small children, gathered to prepare for a "Stop the Child Care Cuts" action. They made sure to point out that this doesn't mean they endorse other kinds of cuts-and they went to great lengths to emphasize that many cuts affect children, not just the ones regarding child care services directly. Said one mother: "I want to work, I want to contribute to my community, and I can't do that without a child care subsidy."
After a bit of a warm up the kids and their parents marched up the stairs to the second floor and circled the rotunda, singing all the while (to the tune of "Mr. Grinch"):
You're a mean one Mr. Ford,
These cuts make you a heel,
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel,
Mr. Forrrrrd!
You're plan is a bad banana,
with a greasy, black peel!
You're a foul one, Mr. Ford,
Closing child care's a nasty stunt,
Your heart is full of unwashed socks,
Yur soul is full of gunk,
Mr. Forrrrrd!
And then, the children shouted: "The three words that best describe your child care plans are as follows, and I quote: STINK, STANK, STUNK!
- reprinted from Torontoist