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Originally Posted by Ducay
Its a garbage idea. You either subsidize all child care or you subsidize only those low-income earners.
Subsidizing based on type of daycare (including NPOs and day homes but not private daycares) makes zero sense and all of the sudden makes a rush on being in the "right" daycare for subsidy rather than what works best for the family or will have the best outcomes.
And that doesn't even get into the whole cost side of things. As someone with 2 day care aged children, this would be a great win for my family, but I'm at least responsible enough to acknowledge the stupidity of giving away free money at a time when the province has none. Many low/mid income earners will fall for this ploy given it may net them thousands a month.
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They did say that eventually all child care would be subsidized (obviously they didn't say when). I do wonder though what will happen to private daycares though, will a bunch of parents jump ship to dayhomes and NPO's? If the gap was long enough I think that could be a real possibility and could be an issue.