Child Care Costs to Be Cut by 50 percent in Ontario by Year-End

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, back centre, plays with children in a day care centre after reaching an agreement on $10-a-day child-care with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, not pictured, in Brampton, Ont., on March 28, 2022. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press

The cost of daycare in Ontario will be reduced by an average of 50 percent by the end of the year, announced federal and provincial ministers on Dec. 19.

“I know that there were some people who doubted whether we would actually be able to deliver, but in close partnership with provinces and territories, in close partnership with early learning and child care educators who actually do the work, and with parents across the country, we have done it,” said Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in a press conference in Toronto.