Hoping for $10-a-day child care? Here’s how many Toronto daycares opted in to the federal program
In the past few weeks, Ontario has been wrestling with its government’s child care system, the province’s largest single spending item. It had no real idea how to fix it last September. It was looking like it would be two years — and an expensive two-year process — until the Liberals came through with a $6-billion, four-year deal that promised it would be fully restored by the end of 2018.
Today, the Liberals have announced that it will indeed be fully restored by the end of 2018 (though they say it will still be more than a year away), thanks to a complicated, long-term deal with the provinces.
The deal sets the child care funding system in Ontario. Ontario would take out federal money, known as the Child Care Benefit (CCB), and the provinces and territories would take in a percentage of it, making up a combined $6 billion annual fee for 10 years. In return, the provinces have agreed to:
Have the federal government write a new, three-year deal in which they have to provide a certain level of funding;
Have the federal government write a new, three-year deal in which they have to provide a certain level of funding; Have the provinces and territories negotiate a minimum level of funding and have to come to agreements on how that level of funding will be allocated when it gets down to the individual province and territory levels;
Have the provinces and territories negotiate a minimum level of funding and have to come to agreements on how that level of funding will be allocated when it gets down to the individual province and territory levels; Have the federal government agree to keep the current federal funding stream in place, which means the amount of money left in the CCB fund each year would have to be enough to cover costs that arise between now and 2025;
have the federal government agree to keep the current federal funding stream in place, which means the amount of money left in the CCB fund each year would have to be enough to cover costs that arise between now and 2025; Have the federal government agree to come up with a new, minimum funding formula for the next three years;
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