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provincial study will also include london north bay southeast grey and ottawa carleton the pilot projects were born out of the early years study by renowned child development expert dr fraser mustard 1 and margaret mccain a child advocate and former lieutenantgovernor of new brunswick the study released a year ago con cluded a childs first six years of life set the foundation for lifelong learning behaviour and health the province has responded by look ing at communitiesto identify gaps in services designed to support young chil- drenand their parents elizabeth wagle the regions director of family and childrens services said there are dozens of exceptional- chil- drens programs in york were not looking to recreate the wheel tliere are a lot of good programs out there they need to be enhanced and built oh in yorks case the torieshave given the region 100000 to establish new programs an amount that must be matchedby the community regional council has kicked in 70000 the region is also hoping to draw on a30million provincial fund set up for early years programs marland stressed the province is counting on municipal governments the private sector and community groups to identify gaps and help fund solutions marland said she knows first hand the difficulties of raising young children she brought her first child home only to spend every night pacirigthe floor with a screaming baby staff photojanice shean minister responsible for children margaretmarland reaovto markham t students thursday afternoon the latest in high performance lawn gare vfi whv cut rake and weed another minute 1 gall today for a free quotation and eet vour weekends off 1 a xrc4210 midland avenuescarborough ontariotel 416291161 1 va- vo itv y j i j shedisnussed her mothers sugges- tion of singing or speaking to her daugh ter thinng a tiny baby wouldnxuhder- stand anything but when she triedut marland was t surprised to see her daughfevs crying decrease j t rmarlahd said many parents get by ilcb on a 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