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What's the reality behind …federal spending on early learning and child care?
Fact &em; Federal spending for regulated child care is only $600 million each year.
Federal transfer funds to provinces for early learning and child care total $600 million this year (down from $950 million in 2006). Additionally, tax breaks for parents for receipted child care expenses total $695 million.
Fiction - The Harper government claims it is spending $5.8 billion yearly on early learning and child care.
In reality, this figure is inflated by including the so-called Universal Child Care
Benefit (UCCB) as well as the National Child Benefit. Neither of these payments to parents has anything to do with child care services.