Major licensed childcare facilities in Vancouver already have 2,000 to 3,000 children on their wait list, according to Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre, a resource for early childcare educators and parents in the City of Vancouver. Signing up with sonogramsWith year-long wait lists many are told to sign up for daycare as soon as they find out they are pregnant. "I don't know how many people said to me when I said I was pregnant, Oh, are you on any daycare lists? "It was crazy," said Kathryn Gibbons, who put her child on wait lists while she was pregnant. "Unfortunately they're still going to be unaffordable for most working families,"said Sharon Gregson, who speaks for the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of B.C.

Source: CBC News August 23, 2016 01:18 UTC