Child care in Canada: A look at the deals signed by each province and territory
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Ontario is the last jurisdiction to sign onto a plan to bring $10-a-day child care to every province and territory by 2026. Here's a look at the deals signed across Canada.
Ontario has signed a child-care agreement with the federal government, making it the last jurisdiction to sign onto a national plan to bring $10-a-day child care to every province and territory by 2026. Here’s a look at the deals signed across the country:
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The province reached an agreement last year that stipulates Ottawa will work with B.C. to reach an average of $10-per-day child care in regulated spaces for children under six before 2027. The deal aims to create 30,000 new spaces in B.C. over a five-year period, with fees for regulated spaces cut in half by the end of 2022. B.C. was the first province to sign on to the Liberal offer laid out in the 2021 budget. After being elected in 2017, B.C.’s NDP government began a $10-a-day daycare pilot program and pledged during the 2020 election campaign to expand the program provincewide.
YUKON
The territory’s child-care deal includes the creation of 110 new regulated early learning and child care spaces within a five-year period, which Yukon builds on its plan for parents to pay an average of $10-a-day in out-of-pocket fees for full-time regulated spaces for children under age six. The agreement also helps fund implementation of Yukon’s wage grid, which provides a minimum wage of nearly $30 an hour to qualified early childhood educators. The federal funding will be used to create regulated spaces among not-for-profit, public and family based service providers. It will see the federal government provide nearly $42 million over five years to child care.
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
The Northwest Territories signed a $51-million deal with Ottawa in December 2021 that will immediately cut the cost of childcare in half and eventually see the price fall to $10 a day in five years. The deal will also create 300 new daycare spaces in the territory by 2026.
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