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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
It's great if you can get it. But if you can't, it actually screws you over even more than before.
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Not sure if it's happening in Ontario or the ROC just yet, but in Quebec the flooding of the daycare market with 5 dollar a day (at the time) spots had a depressing effect on private daycare fees.
Quebec's system was also set up to not kill the privates off completely. So you had very good full refundable tax breaks if you used a private daycare provider. Coupled with a federal tax break (at least at the time) it was OK for a lot of people to remain with their private daycare provider. A bit more expensive maybe, but not so much that most people already committed would switch.
This took some of the pressure of the public subsidized system in its early days.
We used the tax breaks to have a private stay-at-home nanny for the first years when our kids were youngest. They eventually switched over to a pre-school that was 5 dollars a day.
As for after-school daycare access problems in Ontario, that's news to me as every elementary school in Quebec has a before and after school daycare in the building, and all kids registered in the school are guaranteed a spot. They are also open on many stat holidays and during March Break when there is no class.