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Ottawa’s introduction of an affordable daycare scheme designed to boost the work force participation of women with young children is showing positive results in some provinces, according to a recent study tracking employment trends.

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The most noticeable difference was in Manitoba, where there was a 7-per-cent increase in women with young children participating in the labour force, versus a 1-per-cent increase among women overall in the province.

In Alberta, women with daycare-aged children were the only group that had a increase in workforce participation compared with all women in the work force.

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