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Child-care affordability is coming at the expense of equity — and it’s time governments acted
Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
… more than 16,500 children in Toronto are waitlisted for a space, while nearly one in three publicly funded programs deny them access… Funding structures further entrench inequity. Fee subsidies are paid from provincial budgets, while CWELCC affordability funding comes from the federal government. When families stop using subsidies — because spaces are unavailable or eligibility rules too restrictive — provinces and territories save money, while still benefiting politically from federal investments that make care appear more affordable.
Tags: budget, child care, jurisdiction, participation, poverty
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Ontario needs to remove barriers to child-care subsidies for low-income families
Friday, October 20th, 2023
Ontario’s current implementation plan for child-care and early-learning agreements runs the risk of leaving disadvantaged families further behind, rather than closing gaps in opportunities and outcomes for their children. To prevent this, Ontario, and indeed all provinces, need to double down on removing barriers to child-care subsidies for low-income families.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario needs to remove barriers to child-care subsidies for low-income families
Saturday, September 16th, 2023
Ontario’s current implementation plan for child care and early learning agreements runs the risk of leaving disadvantaged families further behind… Inclusivity is explicitly stated as an important goal of the federal government’s Canada-wide early learning and child care initiative… The ultimate solution is publicly funded child care with enough spaces for everyone.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, poverty
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Home child care should be affordable, high-quality — and licensed
Monday, October 18th, 2021
… we propose a system under which every home child-care provider serving more than one unrelated child has to be individually licensed. A provincewide coalition of independent home child-care providers argued precisely for this path of individual licensing when Ontario modernized the legislation governing child care in 2014. In addition to oversight of every home child-care provider, our model involves substantial support for quality improvements for all home child care.
Tags: child care, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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