Rahim Mohamed: Checking in on the status of national "$10-a-day" child care (The Line)

. . . . an initiative that, not too long ago, looked to be a slam dunk for the Trudeau government now finds itself on shaky footing. In recent months, a growing number of child-care operators across the country have raised concerns about the economics of the program, with many saying that the new multilateral funding model has left them operating at a deficit and, in some cases, on the verge of shuttering their doors. Three hundred child-care centres in Alberta, for example, launched a campaign of rolling closures in late January to call attention to their untenable financial circumstances.

The present impasse provides a good opportunity to take stock of how the program was supposed to work, where things went off-course and whether the $10-a-day child-care agreements can be salvaged . . . .

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