Affordability & Housing

Childcare platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Create 100,000 new childcare spaces by 2031

    "Protect and strengthen $10-a-day Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) system to create 100,000 new spaces by 2031. This will increase the supply of not-for-profit and public early learning and child care, getting more families off wait lists, and saving families money. It will also create 35,000 jobs for early learning and child care workers." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

  • Work with provinces and territories on providing predictable wage increases and investments in pensions and benefits programmes for childcare workers

    "Ensure ELCC providers have good wages, which is critical to keeping child care centres staffed. We will work with provinces and territories so that workers have predictable wage increases and investments in pensions and benefits programs." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

  • Require provinces, territories, and municipalities to expand childcare in public infrastructure, like schools and community centres, wherever possible

    "Require provinces, territories, and municipalities to expand child care in public infrastructure wherever possible, including in schools and community centres, and in community infrastructure that receives federal financing, so families can get child care close to home." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

  • Link childcare with federally-financed housing development

    "Link child care with housing development on sites that receive federal financing or affordable housing funds. When child care is considered from the start of the development process, it ensures spaces grow alongside communities, saving time and money, and giving more children and families access, earlier." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

Conservative

  • Work with provinces to create nationally-recognised licenses for doctors, nurses, early childhood educators, and other professions
We don't have any Bloc policies on Childcare.
We don't have any NDP policies on Childcare.
We don't have any Green policies on Childcare.

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