By Martha Friendly, Executive Director, Childcare Resource and Research Unit, and Gordon Cleveland, Associate Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Toronto Scarborough

Did you know?

• Many more children are in licensed child care (especially centres) now than before the $10-a-day program
• Nearly a million Canadian 0-5 year olds already benefit from low-fee licensed child care
• There is considerably more licensed child care than ever before
• For the first time ever, child care has been made affordable for parents
• Waitlists for licensed child care were always long but have grown
• The $10-a-day child care program is very popular with parents, so demand for licensed child care, especially centres, is high.
• For-profit providers are not being driven out of business
• Pierre Poilievre’s “freedom and flexibility” child care policy would raise child care fees

For the detail, see Child Care Policy.net