Here?s what each political party is promising for child care
The pandemic triggered Canada?s first ?she-cession,? where women lost the majority of the employment?particularly lower-earning women, who also may be racialized, single mothers, precariously housed and/or of precarious status. Economic recovery from this pandemic must be a ?she-covery? and child care is crucial for women to re-enter the workplace, or to continue working.
Liberals
In the 2021 budget, the Liberal Party promised more than $27.2 billion (over five years) towards establishing a national child care program that promises $10-a-day child care. This plan continues to be a major plank of their re-election campaign.
To date, the Liberals have signed agreements with eight provincial and territorial governments (B.C., Yukon, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, Nova Scotia, P.E.I, and Labrador and Newfoundland), which would result in a 50 percent cut in child care fees next year, with the goal to reach that $10-a-day threshold sometime in the next five years. To increase capacity, the Liberals plan to build 250,000 new high-quality child care spaces, hire 40,000 more early childhood educators, work with Indigenous partners to ensure Indigenous children have access to culturally appropriate child care, and enact federal child care legislation to strengthen and protect a Canada-wide system.
Conservatives
Canada?s Conservative Party is taking a different approach to reducing child care costs. Party leader Erin O?Toole has said that despite signed agreements, a Conservative gov...
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