Ottawa has struck child care deals with various provinces — but experts say building a viable national child care system means turning a market into a government program and low-wage child care workers into a new professional class. Friendly said the legacy of private, market-based child care services is low wages for child care workers. When the Liberals rolled out their child care plan, they promised to create 250,000 new child care spaces across the country. "We have child care deserts, where we have no child care because no one has turned up to … initiate [it]," she said. "Building a system like child care, or health care, or public education or colleges and universities, is something that has to happen over time.

Source: CBC News January 01, 2022 18:54 UTC