The government has pumped huge amounts of money into inflating demand for licenced child-care spaces.
subsidized daycare
May 23, 2024
10:04AM
Massive government spending has inflated demand but supply has not kept up.
March 2, 2024
5:30AM
Last year, the percentage of children in the province who attended child care fell from 61 per cent to 56 per cent.
February 8, 2024
5:30AM
More than 58 per cent of families in the province reported difficulty finding child care in 2023 compared to 46.5 per cent in 2019.
April 20, 2018
10:03AM
An argument you hear a lot these days is that if the state paid for daycare, then more mothers would enter the workforce.
March 29, 2018
10:36AM
The Quebec government spent $2.3 billion last year, or $9,772 per child, on its daycare program.
March 27, 2018
1:54PM
Quebec subsidies cost north of $2.4 billion a year or roughly $9,700 per child.
March 22, 2018
1:00AM
June 30, 2017
9:58AM
Experience in health-care policy has proven that federal interference in provincial matters often leads to worse outcomes.