Excerpts from the report:

The federal government must move from wishful thinking to accountability for results by ensuring that children and families have equitable access to quality, affordable, inclusive, non-profit child care services across Canada. The AFB therefore implements a focused public investment strategy which includes:

- Public funding, providing adequate, dedicated and sustained child care transfers directly to provinces and territories;
- Public planning, requiring provincial and territorial child care plans, with timelines and targets to reduce parent fees, raise staff wages and add public or community-owned spaces; and
- Public reporting, to ensure accountability for the provision of child care services that support children, families and women in all of their roles.