Quebec daycares protest cuts in provincial funding

Teachers, parents and children formed human chains outside of Quebec daycares Monday to protest the government's plan to cut $120 million from the province's publicly-subsidizedchild-care centres.

At the Le SablierCPE in Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood, parents and teachers carried signs saying "CPE in peril" as children dressed in their winter clothing and daycare bibs walked alongside.

• Quebec daycares threaten closures over cuts to provincial funding

The association representing CPEs, known by its French acronymAQCPE, saythat they're planning an escalating campaign of pressure-tactics to draw attention to the issue.

They say they're willing to go as far as Quebec-wide daycare closures.

Those closures couldtake place at the end of February and in March.