Who cares about child care?

For many politicians, spending on child care has not been worth the political and fiscal expense for the potential return in votes in the next election.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, the country's first female finance minister, is facing growing calls to allocate funding to make child care widely accessible and affordable. We face the prospect of uneven recovery in which women in provinces and territories that have more mature child-care systems can more readily recover.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

March 8, 2021

A Canada-wide system of high-quality early childhood education and child care ticks almost all the boxes: it’s good for kids, it more than pays for itself, it generates increased revenues for governments, it creates jobs, it fosters gender equality, it’s an anti-p...

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