Dramatic drop in lower-income families enrolling in Ontario child

The number of lower-income families receiving subsidized daycare in Ontario has been decreasing, the province’s auditor general found, despite a national effort to achieve a $10-a-day child-care program.

Since 2022, the Ford government has been trying to implement a promise made by former prime minister Justin Trudeau to offer families across the country access to affordable childcare.

The program involves dramatically increasing child-care spaces to accommodate the increased demand, hiring new early childhood educators and balancing the need across the province with set funding from the federal government.

Ontario’s auditor general found, however, that the province’s implementation of the program has led to fewer families having access to the cheaper spaces, saying the Ford governm