Manitoba is moving too slowly to meet the demand for child-care spaces, advocates say, after an announcement from the province this week showed it is less than a quarter of the way to meeting its goal for 2026.

"Manitoba's pace of expansion is too slow to meet the demand, and the current approach is not working," Molly McCracken, chair of the Child Care Coalition of Manitoba, said at a news conference at the legislature building in Winnipeg on Wednesday.

"Parents are stuck on waitlists for years and years," said McCracken, who said her own school-age children have been on a waitlist for child care at their school for two years.

In a Tuesday news release, the province announced it and the federal government have opened or started building 5,350 new child-care spaces since October 2023, w

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