The bargain-priced child care was over-hyped and underfunded from the start, one of the reasons the Ontario government was the last to sign on to the deal

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Ontario parents hoping for $10-a-day child care had better keep their fingers crossed. The $695 million in new federal money recently announced by Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra will keep the child-care program in Ontario afloat at its current average daily rate of $19 until the end of next year, but it’s not nearly enough to expand capacity or reduce prices.

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As Calandra told reporters at Queen’s Park, “I don’t think, frankly, that we will be in a position to meet the $10-a-day program as set up by the federal government unless they are willing to step up to the plate and add the money that is required to get us to $10 a day.”

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The shortfall is hardly a shock. When then prime minister Justin Trudeau announced the $10-a-day plan in 2021, you didn’t need to be clairvoyant to