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Randall Denley: Ontario faces child-care chaos as Carney loses interest in backing Trudeau's $10 dream

The blame will likely fall on Premier Doug Ford, as the popular prime minister points to progress in other provinces and billions already spent

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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s apparent indifference to his predecessor’s $10-a-day child-care program poses a big problem for the Ontario government. In Carney’s spring budget update, he offered no new money for the program and will let the capital fund that covered child-care expansion costs expire next year.

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Carney’s moves will leave the child-care plan well short of its objectives in Ontario without any real hope for improvement, barring an unlikely provincial decision to pour billions of dollars into Justin Trudeau’s day-care daydream.

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Ontario is caught awkwardly between former prime minister Trudeau’s underfunded child-care ambitions and Carney’s child-care thrift, and the issue has some urgency. While every other province except Alberta has a long-term child-care deal, Ontario does not. Federal operating dollars are only guaranteed until the end of March next year because the two sides have been unable........

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