The Ontario government has signed a $13.2 billion deal with the federal government to cut child care fees by half before the year’s end and give parents with kids aged five and under a rebate starting in May. Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the agreement in a joint press conference on March 28, making Ontario the last province to get on board with the Liberal government’s plan to bring child care fees down to $10 a day across the country by 2026. The rebates, retroactive to April 1, will be for a fee reduction of up to 25 percent, and will be going out to parents next month, with another cost reduction by an average of 50 percent coming in December. More reductions are slated for September 2024 to bring Ontario’s childcare to an average of $10 a day by the following September. The fee cuts would amount …