A child plays on a play structure as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks to parents at the YMWCA daycare in Winnipeg about the federal $10-a-day child care plan for Manitoba, on March 3, 2023. The Canadian Press/John Woods
In Lanark County, Ontario, a rural community just outside Ottawa, some 300 families were recently cut from the federal government’s $10-a-day child-care program. Their only offence was choosing a licensed home child-care agency run as a small business.
Andrea Hannen is the executive director of the Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario, which represents independent licensed child care programs, both commercial and not-for-profit.
