Affordable child care is throttling our ability to bounce back from the pandemic, but Doug Ford is right — the numbers just don’t add up, Armine Yalnizyan writes.
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The Star
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Publication Date:
25 Jan 2022
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This may stop you in your tracks, but I sympathize with Doug Ford’s hesitation to sign on to Ottawa’s national early learning and child care program, which has the goal of providing Canadian parents with $10-a-day child care for children younger than six within the next five years.
What we know so far is that Ottawa is offering the province of Ontario $10.2 billion dollars to meet that target. The funding has two main goals: lower costs for parents, and increased access to high-quality, licensed early learning and child care.
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