Ford government is an obstacle to highly affordable, high-quality child care
Posted on December 4, 2025 in Child & Family Delivery System
Source: TheStar.com — Authors: Fred Hahn and Juanita Forde
TheStar.com – Opinion/Letters to the Editor
Dec. 4, 2025. Fred Hahn and Juanita Forde
Ontario campaign that helped boost child-care worker wages wins $50,000 prize, Nov. 27
Could there be a starker contrast between the people behind Worth More!, the campaign that won the Atkinson Foundation’s Good Fight Prize, and the Ford Conservatives? Child care workers were recognized for advocating around a cause that everyone understands is important for Ontario. Doug Ford and his cabinet, meanwhile, are working to keep $10-a-day child care from becoming a reality for families in this province.
In October, Ontario’s auditor general reported the Ford government failed to create the number of child care spaces it promised, even as overall demand has tripled. Much of this failure is down to Conservatives’ fixation on for-profit child care. If municipalities want to bring $10-a-day child care to their communities, the government forces them to look first for private, for-profit operators. But for-profit providers shun smaller towns and cities because there’s not enough profit to extract from $10-a-day child care and decent work requirements. The result? Thousands of families are still without child care.
Ford’s PCs are obstacles to highly affordable, high-quality child care that’s staffed by a fairly compensated workforce. Even as we celebrate Worth More!, we should remind ourselves — and them — of that fact.
Fred Hahn, President, CUPE Ontario, Markham, ON
Juanita Forde, Chair, CUPE Ontario Social Services Committee, Markham, ON
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/ford-government-is-an-obstacle-to-highly-affordable-high-quality-child-care/article_dfcfb022-bac7-4088-9ea5-eeffd19bfe19.html
Tags: child care, Education, ideology, participation, poverty, privatization
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