Day care in Alberta has had a remarkably durable history as acontroversial issue. Since the late 1950s, controversies over day careprograms, policies, and funding have been a recurring feature ofpolitical life in the province.


Alberta’s Day Care Controversy traces the developmentof day care policies and programs in Alberta, with particular emphasison policy decisions and program initiatives that have provokedconsiderable debate and struggle among citizens. Dr. Tom Langfordbrings to light the public controversies that occurred during the lastfour decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the newmillennium, placing contemporary issues in historical context andanticipating the elements of future policy struggles.