Manitoba Liberals are promising parents more help with childcare if the party wins the September 10 provincial election.

"Basically, we want to eliminate the waitlist for childcare in Manitoba," Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont says. A Liberal government would do this, he says, by creating 18,000 additional child-care spaces over eight years at a cost of $33 million a year.

He says he would also boost funding to childcare centres to ensure workers were well paid.

Lamont says the Liberals would move early childhood education from the Department of Families to the Department of Education. "Which makes sense, because it's about education," Lamont says. He says a part of the plan would make sure "that as many kids graduate grade 2 being able to read as possible."