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Subsidized child care and the cost of transit expansion were on the minds of many at Monday's budget committee meeting as councillors heard from the public about the 2014 capital and operating budgets.
Bola Otarali, a mother of a seven-year-old daughter, told of the hardships in securing daycare for her child and urged the city to provide more child-care programs.
She currently needs transportation to and from day care and wants an after-school daycare inside her daughter's school, Beverly Glen Public School.
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Jane Mercer of the Toronto Coalition for Better Child Care told the committee that the city will be receiving $20 million a year from the province for child care funding beginning next year and "With the increase, you can now act."
She also urged the city to restore the wage-subsidy payments and increase subsidized day care spaces by 528.
-reprinted from City News