Parents and educators will be joined by Toronto City Councillors Mike Layton and Joe Cressy on Tuesday July 16th, at 12:30pm to speak about the impact of the Ford government’s cuts to child care and two motions going to Toronto City Council to help protect child care programs for Toronto families.

Ontario is at risk of losing thousands of planned child care spaces, including 3,049 spaces in Toronto because of the Ford government’s cuts to child care. A list obtained by the OCBCC from the City of Toronto shows that 51 planned projects previously approved by the province for development in schools, may never be built because the Ford government has reneged on a government promise to provide full operating funding to support the projects.

Following months of advocacy, child care funding cuts have been put on hold. We must double down on our campaigning to secure gains for next year.

Bowing to pressure from the community, the Ford government has reversed planned cuts for child care for this year. The cuts are on hold and we need to keep advocating to protect child care services for next year and beyond.

Parents and educators are teaming up at child care centres across Ontario for a Day of Action to leaflet and collect petitions against the Ford government’s child care cuts, including in Premier Doug Ford’s riding of Etobicoke North.

New analysis of City of Toronto figures shows that Premier Doug Ford's riding will be one of the worst impacted by child care funding cuts. 

May 7, 2019 – More than 50 moms and Early Childhood Educators are at Queen’s Park today to speak out against the Ford government’s cuts to child care funding.

The OCBCC is at Queen's Park Tuesday with over 50 parents and educators to speak out against the Ford government's child care cuts. Vanessa Kelly drove from Goderich to bring her MPP, Education Minister Lisa Thompson, this letter.

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