[AltaGuy]

Childcare has been a massive success in Quebec, with some challenges that I believe Alberta could improve upon: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...ticle34823036/

How much of the addition to subsidies from the childcare reform is recovered by the increase in net fiscal revenue stemming from so many more working women? One study figured out that some 40 per cent of the cost would be recovered by the increase in income and payroll taxes alone. Taking account of the long-term effects on all types of taxes, transfers and fiscal expenditures, colleagues from the University of Sherbrooke and I then found that the federal and provincial governments would get back much more than 100 per cent of the cost of the reform. In other words, the latter was, in fact, "paying for itself."

In its first 20 years of existence, Quebec's low-fee universal system has been extremely successful in achieving its quantitative target. It has allowed a large number of parents to accomplish a better work/life balance at no net cost for taxpayers.