Canadian Maternity leave law change

[bright sparks]

I agree that infant spots tend to be easier to fill and there will always be a need and want for home daycare (especially since it's nearly impossible to get into a centre in my area).

Maybe I'm looking at this wrong, but if most parents do take advantage of the 18-month leave, won't it mean that the children utilizing our infant spots will be in that spot for less time than they are now, thus opening up the spot more quickly for another infant? That's not a bad thing.

I never looked at it like that...I guess I was so consumed with worry of how this would effect things that I didn't think about it like that. Could essentially help fill those over two spots given the child would move out of that age group in a very short time. Thanks for pointing that out!