Ontario's Child-Care Deal Gets Four More Years; the $10-a-Day Target May Not Follow

Ontario and the federal government have agreed to extend the national affordable child-care program in the province for another four years, CBC reports.

The caveat sits in the program's own headline promise: the extension may not live up to the goal that gave the policy its political identity — lowering parent fees to an average of $10 a day. Funding certainty and fee relief are being renewed on different schedules, and the second one is the part families actually feel at the till.