Affordable Child Care for All - UFCW Canada - Canada’s Private Sector Union

Add your voice to the call for a national strategy to make high quality, publicly funded, and affordable child care available for every family who wants it. With a federal election around the corner, it is time for all federal parties and candidates to pledge their support for quality, affordable child care for all.

As child care costs rise across the country, action on a national child care strategy is urgently needed. Right now, millions of parents can’t find good quality, affordable child care. This lack of access causes economic hardship and keeps mothers out of the paid labour force, adding to economic inequality and insecurity.

Parents and children need action now. Access to good child care options gives parents and caregivers the flexibility to find good jobs, pursue an education, and build a better life for their families. For children, good quality child care provides a safe and nurturing environment to build the foundation for life-long learning.

Send a letter to all federal party leaders urging them to support the Child Care Now coalition’s Affordable Child Care for All Plan, so that families can have access to affordable, high quality child care that includes all children.

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To: All federal party leaders

Canada needs a publicly funded and managed early learning and child care (ELCC) system that is affordable, high quality, accessible, and inclusive. We need affordable child care for all.

The evidence is clear: investments in child care are the surest way to grow the economy, promote gender equality, increase women’s labour force participation, and enhance the well-being of children.

It is time for your party to support the Affordable Child Care for All Plan by:

• Allocating $1 billion for child care transfers to the provinces and territories in the first federal budget after the 2019 federal election, adding an additional $1 billion each year to make affordable child care a reality for all by 2030; 
• Attaching conditions to these federal transfers to ensure that the funds are used to expand not-for-profit, licensed child care, make it affordable for all families, and improve its quality;
• Passing federal legislation to ensure quality child care becomes and remains accessible to all families in Canada; and
• Working with the provinces and territories, Indigenous communities, and the child care sector to put in place a workforce strategy to improve the wages and working conditions of the child care workforce, and to address the crisis in recruitment and retention of qualified early childhood educators.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing your public commitment to support the Affordable Child Care for All Plan.

Sincerely,

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