The federal government is on the verge of signing a bilateral agreement with the provinces to help support child care services across the country as parents begin to head back to work amid economic reopening.
The bilateral contract will extend the government’s previous three-year arrangement that expired in March and will see $400 million go to the provinces on a per capita basis in 2020-21.
One of the longer-term goals is to create up to 250,000 more before-and after-school spaces and to cut those fees for parents by 10 per cent.Kate Bezanson, the associate dean of social sciences at Brock University in Ontario, said there are a number of measures that can and should be taken more immediately.
"It will be like a 1950s-style recovery where we essentially privatize child care to the home, because we haven’t figured out the public fix for child care." "It should be housed in the Prime Minister’s Office or the Privy Council Office, right at the centre, because it will be one of the most important leavers in thinking about stabilization, stimulus spending, and then recovery," said Bezanson in an interview with CTVNews.ca.
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