Who would you believe.??

[bright sparks]

What you are describing is what we have here, minus the subsidy part. I completely understand why you are saying this, and I agree, but the reality of this kind of a plan would likely be worse for a lot of you than it is now. In order to be visited, there has to be someone to do the visiting. A person with their own opinions and beliefs. The daycare providers won't get to pick who that is, so what if the person doing that job, doesn't like you? What if s/he doesn't like daycares in basements, or doesn't like the way you have your play spaces arranged? There is usually a lot of room for interpretation and misunderstanding in rules and laws. (That's why the lawyers get paid the big bucks!)

In my area, we have a great office for our support, but in some of them, holy cow! I feel really sorry for a lot of the providers and what they have to put up with. For example, the provider was going to lose her licence because the windows of the basement were 1 inch too high on the wall, according to the person doing the inspection. There are stories of the inspectors going into the provider's bedroom and rifling through the dresser drawers. These were the types of situations where the provider had no recourse. There was no one to turn to. Then we unionized. And that just opened up a whole other kettle of fish!

What you are suggesting, makes sense, on paper, but when people are involved, things just get more and more complicated. You would lose more and more of the freedom you want and in the end, the people who want to do something illegal, will still do it! Like I posted yesterday, daycare fraud is a very big business in Que. and we have to most structured system in the country.

I'm coming from a country where home based childcare is heavily regulated by the government requiring mandatory training and regular government inspectors coming into the home and guess what, it works. There is no room for opinion. There are a set of standards for all, and the inspectors follow the same framework where it's irrelevant what their opinions and preferences are for. You need your home checked before you can even open so no worry over being closed down because you wouldn't be open in the first place. The system works and I'm sure there are flaws, nothing is perfect, but it certainly focus' more on child safety than Bill 10 claims too. There is no subsidiary either. Low income families would just get a greater tax credit per month similar to CCTB. Additionally the system supports and offers resources to the childcare providers. Should changes need to be made to a providers premises or property, there are grants and funding options. They are also faced with strict age ratios. As I said it is heavily regulated and it works for them. I'm qualified to provide care in this system and my husband is also which would allow us to have more children as long as square footage was sufficient. Children are also never allowed to be left with an assistant or family member or friend even in an emergency unless they are a licensed childcare provider, hence why my husband did the required training too.