Ontario’s education minister says the province needs more money from the feds to properly deliver the national 10-dollar-a-day child-care program now and beyond the life of the current agreement.
Education Minister Jill Dunlop suggests in a new letter to federal Families Minister Jenna Sudds that the sustainability of the program is in jeopardy without more funding.
The province has used the federal funding so far to cut fees in half for parents, with a further reduction coming on January 1st.
But it says beyond that money, little is left to help operators add more spaces or implement a wage grid for early childhood educators to help ease a recruitment and retention crunch.
The province says a limit on the percentage of for-profit spaces in its deal with the federal government is also hampering growth, and has asked Ottawa to lift that.
CANADIAN PRESS