Canada’s roll-out of a new child care system shows the promise and pitfalls of launching a universal national program.
over five years to the country’s first federally funded child care system — borrowing ideas from a long-standing government-funded program in the province of Quebec as well as from British Columbia’s $10 a Day program. The new “Canada-wide” system was “very much situated in the context of economic recovery,” said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada.
As U.S. child care experts call for more federal investment to salvage a struggling industry, Canada’s experience may hold the most relevant lessons on how to make universal child care palatable to politicians and how to design a program to meet the needs of a diverse, geographically sprawling nation.
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