For the third time in two decades, Ontarians have the chance — arguably a last chance — to make child care affordable and available. Or they can let it pass them by yet again, letting $10-a-day daycare die on the vine for lack of votes, lack of interest, lack of priority, lack of urgency. The question today is whether voters will care enough about child care cash flow to make it the ballot question — and on the early evidence from pollsters, it matters as little in 2021 as it did in 2018 and 2006. On child care, it seems, voters who don’t learn the lessons of history are destined to repeat their votes. If the Tories triumph, it will be the third and assuredly last time child care is proposed and disposed of in an election.

Source: thestar September 15, 2021 23:30 UTC