Peacefulbird, you're right about the stress! Ugh...I'll be glad when this is over! Apparently the government has put some base funding in place, or will be, to waive agency fees. But this doesn't deal with the parity between fees or autonomy. When we affiliate with agencies, we have 3 tiers of regulations (Ministry, Municipality, Agency) which is strangling the joy out of the job. We've heard of providers from one agency having to measure children's heads to make sure they can't fit in sand buckets! We're happy to follow Ministry mandated regulations, but that's far enough. Risk management is taking precedence over quality programming and childhood exploration.

We have one year left, then we'll have a better idea what will happen. If the Liberals win the next election, things will likely continue in this direction. If PCs win, we're golden Let the campaign season begin!