Policy developments in Ontario: Fall 2001

An internal Ontario government policy paper leaked to the Toronto Star sets out the removal of $200 million from the provincial budget for regulated child care (currently approximately $470 million which includes funding for regulated child care and family resource programs). The policy paper then proposes three options for the remaining $270 million. The cuts to the child care budget and the proposed options have significant impact on regulated child care, nursery schools and family resource programs in Ontario. Following are items about this policy development listed in chronological order.

Backgrounder
Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care
SOURCE   Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, Nov. 14, 2001
Full backgrounder available - scroll down after Media release.

Tories to destroy child care: Call for Minister's resignation 
Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care
SOURCE   Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, Nov. 14, 2001
Media release available.

Child care funding cut risky
Laurie Monsebraaten
SOURCE   The Toronto Star, Nov. 14, 2001
Newspaper article.

Child care cuts should prompt Minister's resignation
Shelley Martel (NDP Children's Issues Critic) 
SOURCE   Ontario NDP, Nov. 14, 2001
Press release.

Minister silent on child care paper
SOURCE   The Toronto Star, Nov. 15, 2001
Newspaper article.

A quiet plot to destroy child care
Royson James
SOURCE   Toronto Star, Nov. 16, 2001
Newspaper article.

Budget already meager
Letter to the Editor
SOURCE   Toronto Star, Nov. 16, 2001
Full letter.

Shutting the doors on youngest members of society
Letter to the Editor
SOURCE   Toronto Star, Nov. 16, 2001
Full letter.

Ontario's expenditures for regulated child care, 1942-2001
BRIEFing NOTES
SOURCE  Childcare Resource and Research Unit
Chart available for download in pdf format.

Ontario's Tories say no plan to slash child care as indicated in leaked report
Cassandra Szklarski.
SOURCE   CP Wire, January 17, 2002.
Newspaper article

Canadian Auto Workers union response to child care cuts in Ontario
SOURCE Canadian Auto Workers
Full backgrounder and letter available.

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