ANALYSIS: As Ottawa’s Power Over Child Care Has Grown, So Have Deficits and Wait Lists

Kim Yeaman of Innisfil, Ont., has been running her daycare at a deficit since joining the national child-care program about two years ago. Government control has made it impossible to run her business effectively, she says. “There has been no consideration at all for even looking at people’s actual costs, of what it’s taking to run the child care,” she told The Epoch Times. Before joining the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) program, she usually had a modest surplus that allowed her to hold year-end barbecues for families, or to pay for major repairs and maintenance. But she’s now going into debt just for daily operations....