Ya sadly giving you advice would depending vastly on which province you are in and if you are wanting to open a private verses non profit program, in a new build verses renovating an existing space, which age groups you are planning to serve and so forth?

In Ontario for example my advice would be to hold off consider opening any licensed centre based program because the Full Day Early Learning Porgram is resulting in many centers being forced to close due to the loss of this age group - so hate to see anyone investing the amount of money required to open a centre loose it due to the unsure circumstances!

Also depending on the SIZE of the centre you want to open you are looking at needed $100,000's in capital for renovations, supplies, equipment, staff salaries until revenue enough to cover etc!

There is a reason why licensed Childcare is "scarce" because there is no profit in it for business people to invest and not enough "volunteers" do do the fundraisng work to get non profit organizations up and running and keep them running these days

I worked in centre care for decades and have helped to open centers in the past as a Supervisor\Director for people wanting to own a Childcare centre to earn what they thought was easy money ... and to be honest it aint EASY and if you are offering QUALITY to clients it aint profitable .... I make more incone after expenses at the end of the day staying home offering home Childcare to five clients with way less stress and more flexibility to meet children's individual needs and for a more affordable fee to the client than ever did in a centre

Definitely do the research on start up costs, regulations and business plans ... There are a LOT of expenses people do not think off in Childcare from food to toys and equipment but also staff turnover, staff development and employee costs of taxes, Ei, CPP, health care tax and so forth that add up!!!

The best place to start is to contact your local licensing agency - they should have a package on requirements and sample business plans and so forth?