Two months after Josclyn Johnson’s 18-month-old daughter started daycare, the centre announced it was leaving the national $10-a-day program, which has left Johnson considering a line of credit to pay the new $2,310 monthly fee or leaving the workforce to care for her child.
Children's backpacks and shoes are seen at a daycare franchise, in Langley, B.C., on May 29, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
New fees would be up to $2,565 per month for an infant space, the centre said, based on its pre-pandemic fees with"deferred annual increases relative to inflation" factored in. The parents didn't stop there. The leadership structure of the daycare has always been unclear, they said, so they pulled corporation profile reports from a provincial database.
All told, Hunter and/or McCallum appear to be connected to half of the centres in Toronto leaving the $10-a-day system."We hope that future changes to the program will evolve or be replaced with something that allows for increased viability, better access and more choice in selecting child care for all parents," they wrote in a joint statement as Sunnyside directors.
"I used child care at one time in my life with my children too, so I can imagine how upset they would be," she said. A group of for-profit operators in the province staged rolling closures this fall to protest the new funding formula, worried it will mean a lack of flexibility and autonomy. Jacqueline Stein, who was in a similar spot to Johnson's when her son's daycare left the program earlier this year, said she doesn't understand why some for-profit centres leave when so many others are able to stay.
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