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8 things to know about $10-a-day child care

By Martha Friendly, Executive Director, Childcare Resource and Research Unit, and Gordon Cleveland, Associate Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Toronto Scarborough In 2023, 177,900 more 0-5 year olds were reported by Statistics Canada to be in child care centres than at the end of 2020 just before the $10-a-day program began.  938,000 children are using licensed child care that is eligible for the $10 a day program, according to 202…