What r your plans after closing?

[adaycarelady]

With the election coming up in october, if the ndp wins they want a canada wide $15/day childcare system. Just wondering if they plan on paying the rest of the fee? There is no way anyone can make a decent income on about $300 per spot. Then I read some articles on how they want to cap fees based on a parents income in Quebec now. Don't know if that's just for centers or homes as well. I just don't like the government having so much control over how much I can potentially make. I've been applying for jobs so hopefully I'm done soon!

[superfun]

With the election coming up in october, if the ndp wins they want a canada wide $15/day childcare system. Just wondering if they plan on paying the rest of the fee? There is no way anyone can make a decent income on about $300 per spot. Then I read some articles on how they want to cap fees based on a parents income in Quebec now. Don't know if that's just for centers or homes as well. I just don't like the government having so much control over how much I can potentially make. I've been applying for jobs so hopefully I'm done soon!

I don't know if they have a decent plan to make that work across Canada, however I can speak for how it works in Manitoba. I chose to become licensed, and let them set my rates. So my rates range from 6 - 25 dollars per day. That's after school care to infant care, and all ages in between. So that's what the parent pays, and I get additional funding from the province every 3 months, based on how many spots I'm licensed for.

[kindertime]

With the election coming up in october, if the ndp wins they want a canada wide $15/day childcare system. Just wondering if they plan on paying the rest of the fee? There is no way anyone can make a decent income on about $300 per spot. Then I read some articles on how they want to cap fees based on a parents income in Quebec now. Don't know if that's just for centers or homes as well. I just don't like the government having so much control over how much I can potentially make. I've been applying for jobs so hopefully I'm done soon!

Well, you mentioned Que. and I just couldn't help myself. Pigs will fly south for the winter before the whole country will have a system like Quebec's. I don't know about how it all works in the other provinces but the system here is huge and unwieldy. It is a "sacred" policy that people will rally to protect but the government just can't seem to figure out how to pay for it. It is conceivable that I might have to go private (unlicenced) in a couple of years because of the changes, might even have to move to Ontario, but I don't think anyone else in the country has to worry about that election promise from the NDP.

Oh, and they're not capping fees, they are increasing them. It is now based on your income, the parent still pays me the same amount and I just got a "raise" on April 1st but I am actually making less money than I was last year because of it. Yup, that's Quebec.