VANCOUVER – Premier Christy Clark spent part of Sunday morning with six-year-olds, as she chalked up the sidewalks of an East Vancouver neighbourhood and warned of NDP cuts to education grants for children.
Clark says her opposition would nix her Liberals’ one-time $1,200 Registered Education Savings Plan grants, currently doled out by government to families with kids born after 2007.
She says parents best know how to spend the education grants to suit their kids’ needs but accuses NDP leader Adrian Dix of trying to show government knows better.
Clark also says the NDP will use the nearly $300 million his government saves to pay for its election promises.
But the NDP has said earlier last month it will redirect the money into an Early Years Innovation Fund, aimed at childcare and early education for youngsters.
After Clark answered media questions outside the home of a Liberal supporter, she crashed a birthday party next door and kneeled to draw a chalk figure of her striped cat Pixie for the celebrating girls.
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