‘We need the entire bouquet’: child care bill debate zeroes in on role of for-profit providers

The Conservatives say excluding for-profit providers will make it impossible to grow the system to meet demand, while the NDP says it fought to include the provision prioritizing public and not-for-profit providers.
Families Minister Karina Gould, seen here on Nov. 3, 2022, opened the debate on the government's bill to write into law its vision of a long-term federal commitment to child care.

New Liberal child care legislation lays out an ambitious vision for a publicly funded national system, but the Conservatives say it's wrong to exclude for-profit providers, and the government is setting itself up to miss its own targets in the face of enormous demand from pa...

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