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Child-care wait lists have ballooned across Ontario since the province signed on to the national $10-a-day program, as demand due to the lower fees appears to be far outstripping the creation of new spaces in many regions. Children play at a daycare in Coquitlam, B.C., on March 28, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

April 3, 2024

3 years after Canada’s landmark investment in child care, 3 priorities all levels of government should heed

Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto

Governments need to co-operate to prioritize access to high-quality child care for low-income families, and sustain not-for-profit care centres with well-paid educators.

Canada needs to find economically efficient ways of supporting child care programs while incentivizing quality. (Shutterstock)

June 15, 2020

Better public child care is the engine we need for recovery post‑coronavirus

Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto

Canada could emerge from this pandemic with a better quality, expanded and more efficient child-care system nationwide while making an investment with returns in the future.

A photo of the last truck to be assembled on the General Motors production line, shown at a sports bar where GM workers congregated after their work work at the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont., on its final day of vehicle production, on Dec. 18, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Vincent Elkaim

January 20, 2020

Canada can better prepare to retrain workers displaced by disruptive technologies

Alix J. Jansen, University of Toronto; Beth Martin, University of Toronto; Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto; Linda A. White, University of Toronto, and Michal Perlman, University of Toronto

The federal government must take a stronger leadership role to ensure the many bodies that co-ordinate employment training programs are sharing information to develop best practices.

Reducing the number of child care subsidies will mean that some parents will not be able to support their families or continue their studies. (Shutterstock)

May 16, 2019

Ontario’s child‑care cuts will hurt low‑income parents working or studying full time

Linda A. White, University of Toronto; Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto; Michal Perlman, University of Toronto, and Petr Varmuza, University of Toronto

For better childhood developmental outcomes and better economics, and in the absence of other long-recommended child care policies, the child care subsidy system should be expanded, not cut.

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