Commentary
A report on the progress of the federal government’s child-care program has recently been published by the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU). The CRRU’s mandate includes “work to bring about a universal, publicly funded, high quality, inclusive and public/not-for-profit early learning and child care system in Canada.”
The federal child-care program was marketed to families as “$10-a-day child care,” but is officially known as the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care program, or CWELCC. The data shared in the CRRU’s report points to the program’s failure to deliver on its promises, despite costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars and nearing the end of its initial five-year funding period….