Commentary
In Ontario, the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care program (CWELCC), marketed to voters as $10-a-day child care, has resulted in long waiting lists and lack of access for families, suppression of wages for child-care staff, and crushing levels of government red tape.
In October, some Ontario child-care centres participated in “awareness days” to highlight these challenges. Some even aligned themselves with groups from other provinces that were urging the federal government to scrap the current federal–provincial agreements in favour of “no-strings-attached envelope funding.” More recently, Ontario Education Minister Jill Dunlop called for more federal funding and more flexibility in the national program….