More than 155 daycares in Toronto applied for the national child care program in the first day-and-a-half after the city opened its application process, a positive sign for parents paying the country’s highest fees.
But some daycares say they’re still waiting on critical details before deciding whether to participate.
Ferns said she suspects the vast majority of non-profit daycares, which comprise three quarters of Ontario’s licensed child care centres, will choose to opt into the program. In March, Ontario became the last jurisdiction in Canada to ink a deal with Ottawa to join the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care funding program, a delay that drew fierce criticism from the child care sector.
Everyone is scrambling, said Lisa Winters, managing director of Beatty Buddies, a non-profit daycare in east Toronto. But critical questions remain unanswered, Winters said: for example, which specific expenses will be approved under the program.
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