Support for national daycare, pharmacare, and dental care plummets to well below half of Canadians when they are to be paid for through an increase in taxes, particularly the goods and services tax (GST), a new poll finds.
All three programs were included or committed to in the 2022 federal budget released by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on April 7.
The budget estimates that the $10-a-day daycare will cost the country $7.9 billion yearly by 2025/26, while dental care is estimated to cost about $1.7 billion a year upon full implementation. Pharmacare, though yet to be formally introduced, is expected to go as high as $15.3 billion annually once implemented, based on an estimate by Health Canada in 2019.
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