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Costumes start at $19.99 Costumes hats & wigs make up accessories thank you oakville! 2011 Diamond Award Winner Best Party Supply Store Open Year Round! 100% Canadian owned & operated 568 Kerr St., Oakville 905.842.6960 www.partiesnmore.ca This week only when you spend $1.00 on a delicious chocolate chunk Smile Cookie, Tim Hortons will donate the entire proceeds to the Halton Learning Foundation. To find out more visit timhortons.com Tim Hortons, 2010 7 W ednesday, Septem ber 21, 2011 O A K V ILLE B EA V ER w w w .in sid eH A LTO N .co m By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Childcare, the provincial deficit and affordable housing were just a few of the topics discussed during Friday mornings Halton riding all-candi- dates meeting at Oakvilles Dynasi Restaurant. Approximately 20 spectators attended the meeting co-hosted by the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW-Oakville) and the Oakville Chapter of the Professional Engineers of Ontario. At the podium were Progressive Conservative incumbent Ted Chudleigh, Liberal candidate Indira Naidoo-Harris and NDP candidate Nik Spohr. Haltons other five candidates were not registered with Elections Ontario at the time the meeting was organized and, as such, were not invited. When asked how they would sup- port childcare, Chudleigh said his party would fully implement all-day kindergarten by 2014. We understand that is going to require capital expenditures for class- room development in many schools, all those schools that are full, said Chudleigh. The ones that have had it imple- mented up to this point have been in schools that really have room avail- able to them and so this will be a big assist. Naidoo-Harris said her party is also committed to implementing full-day kindergarten and reminded the audi- ence it was the Liberal government pthat came u with the initiative. She also said a re-elected Liberal government would institute after- school care for children between the ages of six and 12. pS ohr said the NDP would freeze childcare costs by giving $125 million a year over the next two years to licensed childcare providers. This will help them keep these spaces open, keep them accessible and prevent the slide that has been hap- pening under the Liberal govern- ment, he said. We must demonstrate political leadership by championing affordable childcare for all families because what I am hearing is that people cannot afford to have two children in child- care. It costs more than their monthly mortgage payments and that is unac- ceptable. On the subject of dealing with Ontarios $16 -billion deficit Chudleigh said a Progressive Conservative gov- ernment would reduce it by investing in education and healthcare while cutting 2 per cent off the budgets of all other ministries. Chudleigh said this approach would balance the budget in six years. Chudleigh also said a Progressive Conservative government would increase investments in healthcare by $6.1 billion by the end of its first term and increase investments in educa- tion by $2 billion. Naidoo-Harris began her remarks Candidates talk childcare, housing and debt in Halton DANIEL HO / SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER AT THE TABLE: Halton NDP candidate Nik Spohr, Liberal candidate Indira Naidoo-Haris and incumbent Ted Chudleigh were at Dynasi Restaurant in Oakville Friday for an all-candidates meeting jointly organized by the Canadian Federation of University Women - Oakville (CFUW) and the Oakville Chapter of the Professional Engineers of Ontario. See New page 9