Feminist advocates say the federal budget doesn't fully account for the challenges in scaling up child-care systems across the country.
Morna Ballantyne, executive director of advocacy group Child Care Now, said she's pleased the government created a fund for building new child-care spaces.
The federal Liberal budget for 2022 said it would give $625 million over four years to help provinces and territories invest in child care, including building new facilities. Between 52,000 to 63,000 early childhood educator jobs will be created as a result of Canada's early learning and child-care agreements between the federal government, provinces and territories, according to the budget.
In 2015, median annual income for early childhood educators and assistants in child care was $34,192, according to the research unit. That means that the operational funding the government gives to the sector has to be enough to pay higher wages, since providers will no longer rely as much on parent fees to cover their costs, said Ballantyne.
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