On June 2nd 2022, Ontarians will head to the polls to elect Members of the Provincial Parliament to serve in the 43rd Parliament of Ontario.
This Issue File will provide readers with election materials related to child care in a central place. This will include party platforms, community responses, endorsements and media coverage.
The Issue File will be updated on a weekly basis and is broken down by political party.
To share a relevant news article please email contactus@childcarecanada.org [1].
Childcare: The forgotten election issue? [7]
TVO Today, 31 May 2022
Child care affordability leads to questions of space creation in Ontario election [8]
The Star, 22 May 2022
Niagara Falls riding candidates share how they would fix child-care shortage problems [9]
St. Catherine Standard, 19 May 2022
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario has yet to release their 2022 election platform. However, the party tabled a budget on April 28th 2022 that effectively doubles as its platform for the upcoming election.
2022 Ontario Budget: Ontario’s Plan to Build [10]
Government of Ontario, 28 April 2022
Ontario budget 2022 misses the mark on what the pandemic taught Ontarians, the value of nonprofits [11]
Ontario Nonprofit Network, 29 April 2022
In their analysis of Ontario's 2022 provincial budget, the Ontario Nonprofit Network expresses their disappointment with the Ford government’s lack of commitment to expanding non-profit child care services, and investing in wages of the child care workforce. The ONN statement also reinforces that increasing tax credit for families will not build spaces nor address the growing child care workforce shortage.
Ontario budget 2022: Child care plan can’t work without a workforce strategy. ECEs and child care workers are worth more than Ford’s budget [12]
Canadian Union of Public Employees, 29 April 2022
This section will be updated as information become available.
This section will be updated as information become available.
Ontario NDP election 2022 platform: They broke it, we’ll fix it [14]
Ontario New Democratic Party, 26 April 2022
The Ontario New Democratic party has released its platform for the 2022 election campaign with its commitment to make life more affordable for Ontarians. On child care affordability, the Ontario NDP commit to implementing $10-a-day child care, reducing fees of before and after school child care, increasing RECEs’ standard wage to $25 per hour, creating a workforce strategy, making child care inclusive, providing base funding for licensed home child care and limiting government-funded expansion to public or non-profit services only.
This section will be updated as information become available.
This section will be updated as information become available.
Ontario NDP pitch wage boost for child-care staff [15]
Canada’s National Observer, 12 April 2022
Ontario election 2022: NDP pledges $25 minimum wage for early childhood educators [16]
CTV News, 12 April 2022
Andrea Horwath: $25 for early childhood educators & $20 for child care program staff. We can make child care a career that actually pays the bills [17]
NDP Ontario via Twitter, 12 April 2022
A place to grow: The Ontario Liberal platform [18]
Ontario Liberal Party, 10 May 2022
The Ontario Liberal Party has released its platform for the 2022 election campaign with its commitment to implement $10 a day child care, enhance parental leave and build flexible, tailored child care options. The platform includes, in specific: implementing universal $10 a day for licensed child care; making child care discounts retroactive, giving parents $2,750 per child; delivering $10 a day before and after school care by September; creating 30,000 new child care jobs; enhancing pay and benefits for ECEs; and providing free tuition for all ECE programs at Ontario’s colleges.
This section will be updated as information become available.
This section will be updated as information become available.
This section will be updated as information become available.
The Green plan: New solutions to old problems [19]
Green Party of Ontario, 11 May 2022
The Green Party of Ontario has released its platform for the 2022 election campaign with its commitment to implement $10 a day child care and provide Early Childcare Educators with a starting wage of $25 per hour.
This section will be updated as information become available.
This section will be updated as information become available.
This section will be updated as information become available.
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[2] https://childcarecanada.org/resources/issue-files/ontario-provincial-election-2022/progressive-conservative-party-ontario
[3] https://childcarecanada.org/resources/issue-files/ontario-provincial-election-2022/ontario-new-democratic-party
[4] https://childcarecanada.org/resources/issue-files/ontario-provincial-election-2022/ontario-liberal-party
[5] https://childcarecanada.org/resources/issue-files/ontario-provincial-election-2022/green-party-ontario
[6] https://childcarecanada.org/taxonomy/term/9251
[7] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/22/06/childcare-forgotten-election-issue
[8] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/22/05/child-care-affordability-leads-questions-space-creation-ontario
[9] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/22/05/niagara-falls-riding-candidates-share-how-they-would-fix-child-care
[10] https://budget.ontario.ca/2022/index.html
[11] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/22/05/ontario-budget-2022
[12] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/22/05/ontario-budget-2022-child-care-plan-can%E2%80%99t-work-without-workforce
[13] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/politics
[14] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/22/04/ontario-ndp-election-platform-they-broke-it-we%E2%80%99ll-fix-it
[15] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/22/04/ontario-ndp-pitch-wage-boost-child-care-staff
[16] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/22/04/ndp-promises-25-minimum-wage-early-childhood-educators-ontario
[17] http://%20https//childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/22/04/andrea-horwath-25-early-childhood-educators-20-child-care-program
[18] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/22/05/place-grow-ontario-liberal-platform
[19] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/22/05/green-plan-new-solutions-old-problems