In an increasingly market-driven Canada, it should not be surprising that profit-making services are still part of the child-care landscape. Child care should be a public good to benefit all. Read the full article - The case against for-profit ‘big box’ child care.
Child Care: It's Everyone's Issue. Excerpt: "Almost 70 percent of mothers with children under five are working, yet Canada lacks a national child care system. For many families, child care is the second highest expense after housing. In Ontario, families pay between $40 and $60 a day for child care, compared to $7 a day in Quebec; There are currently over 3,800 families on the waitlist for subsidized care in Durham Region; Quebec’s child care program increased the number of women in the workforce by 3.8 percent and boosted the province’s GDP by 1.7 percent." Visit http://www.weareoshawa.ca/press_release for full article.
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