Currently the province is implementing full day learning with insufficient funding. The school boards are not bearing the costs for extended day programs. Consequently, the City is allowing Community Child Cares, not-for-profit Boards of Directors, parents and child care staff to bear the brunt.

Another option for child care in Toronto is the live in child care program that is only affordable for middle and upper class families. This program brings to Canada women to work as live-in caregivers. They are underpaid and overworked. There is an obvious need for a national childcare program that doesn’t use the exploitation of migrant workers through state sanctioned policy. There is also a necessity to bring national attention to the lives of migrant workers in Canada who work not just as caregivers, but as cleaners, gardeners, factory workers and seasonally workers.

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