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The following press release reports the ruling to the legal proceedings initiated in the fall of 2006 by six private day care centres in Quebec who charged additional fees to the the $7/day day care. Press release excerpts: In a judgment rendered on February 25, 2008, the Honourable Judge Kevin Downs of the Superior Court agreed with six private day care centres that had asked that the additional fees charged by them be recognized as legal. "In his ruling, the judge concludes that the operating methods of the daycares are valid, legal and in compliance with the Educational Childcare Act and the Reduced Contribution Regulation. The judgment recognizes the existing principle of $7-a-day day care and allows parents to agree with the day cares for the provision of additional services."