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Create More Childcare Spaces

Nova Scotians are suffering from a lack of access to childcare spaces. While Tim Houston’s government has claimed that they’ve created 5,000 new daycare spots in non-profit daycares, almost half—2,165 spaces—are actually before and after school program spaces. And 1,187 spaces have closed. This means that only ​1,680 new, full-time, non-profit daycare spaces have been opened by his government.

In order to create more spaces, we need to expand our agreement with the federal government to allow private daycare operators to access funding. Alberta, Ontario and New Brunswick all have agreements that allow for some level of private expansion. Nova Scotia deserves a fair deal.

A Nova Scotia Liberal government will aggressively negotiate with the federal government to allow private daycare operators to expand, spurring the creation of more affordable childcare spaces and allowing more Nova Scotians to enter the workforce if they want to.

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