The NDP say the PC government has quietly eliminated $23-million in child care subsidies intended for low-income families.
Critic Doly Begum says a memo sent to child care providers last month indicates the decision came in response to feedback from ‘partners.’
“By cutting millions of dollars in assistance for low-income families, they are making child care less affordable for those who need it,” says Begum. “Ontario needs to move forward, not backward.”
Begum is also concerned with the province removing a for-profit maximum threshold which determines how much provincial funding corporate and for-profit child care receive.
She says by doing so, it opens the doors to large chain providers setting up.
Education Minister Lisa Thompson says they are simply allowing for more choice.
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