Canada’s child care ‘crisis’ should be ballot box issue, say advocates, economists

'It’s a crisis situation in many, many jurisdictions and provinces,' says Liberal MP Wayne Long.

The Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on the campaign trail in Fredericton, N.B., in October 2015, has made the first attempt at federal involvement in child care in more than a decade, but economists say it’s not nearly enough to address the problem.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

August 14, 2019

Daycare in Canada has reached a crisis point, say some MPs, child care advocates and economists, who urge a conversation on a federally funded and developed system to address affordability and ...

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