The cost of daycare in Ontario will be reduced by an average of 50 percent by the end of the year, announced federal and provincial ministers on Dec. 19.
“I know that there were some people who doubted whether we would actually be able to deliver, but in close partnership with provinces and territories, in close partnership with early learning and child care educators who actually do the work, and with parents across the country, we have done it,” said Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in a press conference in Toronto.
The agreement between the federal government and the province of Ontario had been announced last March and seeks to eventually deliver $10-a-day child care and create 86,000 new spaces in licensed establishments….