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Cities pressure Ontario to join national child-care plan By Aidan Chamandy. Published on Jul 22, 2021 4:50pm Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce, pictured in September 2020 alongside federal Families Minister Ahmed Hussen, is hearing from ever-more cities that want Ontario to sign on to Ottawa s child-care plan. (Richard Lautens/Toronto Star) Ontario’s two largest cities are urging the provincial government to sign on to Ottawa’s national child-care program. Ottawa city council recently approved a motion to ask the province to start negotiating with the federal government regarding its national child-care program, which will cost taxpayers $30 billion. The program was unveiled in the 2021 federal budget, which promised the money over five years. By 2022, Ottawa’s plan is to cut child-care fees in half. By 2026, it’s to make child care cost $10 a day, on average, per child.

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