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"What could a childcare cost, ten dollars?"
In Canada, yes.
https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/news/2025/03/toward-10-a-day-an-early-learning-and-child-care-backgrounder0.htm
Wow way to rub THAT in XD
Just kidding, I love that for y'all. Every parent should have that (or better!)
That's the goal. Maybe I'm in an exceptional area, but I'm not aware of any parents who are effectively paying $10/day unless their income is low enough to trigger additional benefits.
Still HUGE improvement over the last few years though. I think we had an option for 18$/day if we packed our kid a lunch. Our daycare would feed them for an additional 3$/day. I think overall average care costs have practically halved in the last few years so even if it's not perfectly universal and perfectly $10, it's HELLA better. Strong improvement. Honestly a MAJOR factor in trying to figure out the feasibility of having more kids for us.
My friends are paying $1400 a month, I don't think this is working in Ontario.
Ontario has been extremely stingy on paying out their share of the fees (Program is part funded by federal, rest by provincial), leading to most daycare centres still not registering for the full reduction to $10/day. But most are still reducing their prices from what they were at previously.
How much clearer can i be Michael?!