B.C. NDP government is still a long way from meeting its promise of universal $10-a-day child care
In 2017, when the NDP came into office, 108,000 child-care spaces in the province were receiving at least some government funding – a figure that had been slowly rising under the previous Liberal government. Since then, the number of spaces has increased to about 119,000.
Today, about 27,000 children are getting daycare for $10 a day , up from 22,000 before the NDP took government. It is a meaningful gain, but it’s not close to being a universal program. Ottawa’s early learning and child-care plan dates back to the early 2000s. It disappeared under the Conservatives, but was relaunched in 2017 by the Trudeau government.
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