Premier Kathleen Wynne says her government's free daycare pledge will be an effective measure to shrink the gender wage gap, but some critics are dismissing it as a pre-election ploy for votes. Not fair to the kids, not fair to the families, and especially not fair to women." Aaron Wudrick, Canadian Taxpayers FederationWudrick said he's not philosophically opposed to the idea of free daycare, but supports offering the program only to parents who can't afford to pay. It will cost an estimated $930 million to implement free daycare for children, but Ballantyne said the benefits will outweigh the costs. Spinks calls the Wynne government's plan to implement free daycare in 2020 "reasonable" because it takes about three years to train an early childhood educator.

Source: CBC News March 28, 2018 07:52 UTC