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Ontario Liberals Promise Free Child Care in 2020

Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 13:35

Premier Kathleen Wynne is promising free licensed child care for pre-school children starting in 2020 if the Ontario Liberals are re-elected.

QUEEN'S PARK - The Ontario Liberals have made a major campaign promise today. 

Kathleen Wynne called a news conference today to announce her plan for free licensed child care for pre-school children starting in 2020. Wynne says the free child care will cost $930 million dollars in 2020-21 and it is part of their $2.2 billion dollar investment over three years to expand child care. 

Wynne says this is great news for families in Ontario. 

"Not being able to find or afford child care is stressful and it holds families back at a time when it's already hard enough to get ahead." 

In her statement today Wynne says simply providing child care spaces is not enough. 

"Parents have said to us that it's great that your building a 100,000 child care spaces, but if we can't afford them, then it actually doesn't help us, the reality is that in Ontario, the average cost of putting just one child in all day child care is $17,000." 

The free child care would be offered to children between the ages of two and half, up until they enter full day kindergarten. 
 

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