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Cap on for-profit centres hampering growth of $10-a-day child-care system: Ontario

"While Ontario recognizes the important role that not-for-profit providers play in the child care system, these operators cannot fill the capacity alone," Smith and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario wrote.

Published Jul 9, 2024 at 5:44pm

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Cap on for-profit centres hampering growth of $10-a-day child-care system: Ontario
Ontario municipalities have been forced to turn down thousands of child-care spaces in the $10-a-day system because of a limit on the percentage of for-profit spaces in the province's deal with the federal government. Todd Smith, then-Ontario Energy Minister, attends an announcement with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, in Belleville, Ont., Friday, March 1, 2024. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)

Ontario municipalities have been forced to turn down thousands of child-care spaces in the $10-a-day system because of a limit on the percentage of for-profit spaces in the province's deal with the federal government, the provincial government says.

The province has so far created less than a third of the new spaces it committed to by 2026 and Ontario Education Minister Todd Smith and the association representing the province's municipalities have sent a letter to federal Minister Jenna Sudds, asking her to lift the cap on for-profit spaces.

"While Ontario recognizes the important role that not-for-profit providers play in the child care system, these operators cannot fill the capacity alone," Smith and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario wrote.

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