It's a long road to $10 child care, says think-tank report
It could take 10 years or more for B.C.’s New Democrat government to implement a plan to offer child care for $10 a day, according to an economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Vancouver parents pay a median monthly fee of $1,292 for full-time toddler care, second only to Toronto, while parents in Burnaby and Richmond pay $1,200, according to CCPA’s new report Time Out: Child Care Fees in Canada.
Parents of infants pay even more, about $1,360 in Vancouver.
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