For-profit providers are taking advantage of this publicly funded program

An important stipulation of the child care agreements is that the spaces created should be primarily non-profit or government run. The costs of the child care system in most provinces and territories are now being paid almost entirely from the public purse. For-profit providers are cashing in:

• Since 2022, 57 per cent of all the net new licensed child care spaces for non-school age children have been for-profit spaces—larger for-profit chains make up a quarter of the growth.
• Only 30 per cent were public or non-profit, and the remainder were new homes.
• This hasn’t been a Canada-wide public expansion of child care—it has been an overwhelmingly for-profit expansion.