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Opinion | Why provinces must meet the call of the federal daycare funding boost
Canada’s journey toward a universal, $10-a-day child-care system has reached an important crossroads with the federal government’s recent announcement of an additional $5.4 billion over two years to bolster the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) system.
Scaling Up What Works: The future of child care in Canada
Public talk by Morna Ballantyne, Executive Director of Child Care Now, at the Child Care Coalition of Manitoba’s Annual General Meeting, April 15, 2026 in Winnipeg. In November 2014, close to 700 conference delegates gathered in Winnipeg to set an updated vision for universal child care in Canada. The main conference discussion paper began by painting a picture of what the future could be. “It’s a May morning in 2020,” the paper began.
Opinion | Dear Erin O’Toole: your tax scheme is not child care
By Morna BallantyneContributor Fri., Sept. 17, 2021timer3 min. read Canadian women are at a breaking point. Nineteen months of this pandemic have left us overworked, poorer and fed up. We are exhausted by fear. We are exhausted by uncertainty. We are exhausted by being asked, again and again, to bend, contort and overextend ourselves. When we lost our jobs to the shutdown? We made it work. When we worked the pandemic front lines providing health care, child care and groceries? We made it work.
Opinion | Dear Erin O’Toole: your tax scheme is not child care
By Morna BallantyneContributor Fri., Sept. 17, 2021timer3 min. read Canadian women are at a breaking point. Nineteen months of this pandemic have left us overworked, poorer and fed up. We are exhausted by fear. We are exhausted by uncertainty. We are exhausted by being asked, again and again, to bend, contort and overextend ourselves. When we lost our jobs to the shutdown? We made it work. When we worked the pandemic front lines providing health care, child care and groceries? We made it work.
Building a national child-care system requires a coherent, ambitious approach
There is growing consensus that post-pandemic recovery will be impossible without major public spending to make high-quality child care available and affordable for parents. The 2020 speech from the throne promised that Ottawa would be ambitious and “make a significant, long-term, sustained investment to create a Canada-wide early-learning and child-care system,” drawing on lessons from Quebec, which began its universal child-care project more than 20 years ago.
Is giving parents money directly the best approach to child-care funding?
Child care will be a major issue for all political parties in this fall’s federal election. There is no consensus on the best approach for helping parents. Alexandre Laurin of the C.D. Howe Institute favours direct payments to parents, while Morna Ballantyne of Child Care Now argues for funding child-care services directly. There can be many reasons for society to subsidize parents for the cost of child care.
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