There’s a big difference between making something affordable and playing a shell game with the costs.
Unfortunately, the feds are choosing the latter with their new child-care program.
The federal 2021 budget allocated $30 billion over the next five years towards a national child care program in an attempt to bring costs down for parents. This will be added on top of the $27 billion in direct payments parents already receive every year.
The budget says “it is time for the rest of Canada to learn from Quebec’s example.”
We should indeed learn from Canada’s experience with government-run child care.