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Figure 8 Centres maintaining an internal waiting list, 2017 Ottawa 37% St. John’s Saint John Markham Vaughan Calgary Edmonton Hamilton Richmond Surrey Halifax Burnaby Mississauga Windsor Brampton Regina Saskatoon Toronto Vancouver London Kitchener 43% 47% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 55% 62% 63% 66% 69% 78% 78% 79% 84% 85% 87% 89% 93% 94% 95% 95% 95% 100% Source Ottawa maintains a central waiting list which is not included in its low figure above which only includes centre who maintain their own internal waiting lists. marily for-profit full-day centres) have notably fewer centres maintaining a wait list, 66% and 63% respectively. In the case of Edmonton, this is up from the 49% of centres that maintained such a list in 2016. 19 In Kitchener, 90% of centres maintained a wait list in 2016 compared to 100% this year. London, Vancouver and Saskatoon have similar proportions as the previous year. And in Toronto, 95% of centres reported having a waiting list in 2017 compared to 89% last year. In addition, parents are sometimes asked to pay a fee to place their child on a centre’s wait list. This practice was banned by the Ontario government in September 2016 (just after our 2016 survey was conducted) which, based on this year’s survey results, has greatly reduced the number of Ontario centres charging a wait list fee, but hasn’t entirely eliminated them. For example, in Brampton, 9% of centres charged a wait list fee in 2017 while the GTA cities of Toronto, Vaughan and Mississauga also have a small proportion of centres still charging wait list fees. It should be noted that wait list fees were most prevalent in the GTA prior to their prohibition last year. <strong>Time</strong> <strong>Out</strong>: Child care fees in Canada 2017 20
Figure 9 Centres charging a wait list fee, 2017 St. John’s 0% Saint John 0% Ottawa 0% Markham 0% Hamilton 0% Kitchener 0% London 0% Windsor 0% Regina 0% Saskatoon 0% Surrey 1% Burnaby Edmonton Toronto Vaughan Mississauga Halifax Brampton Richmond Vancouver Calgary 2% 3% 3% 3% 4% 6% 9% 13% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 18% 29% Wait list fees are now most prevalent in Calgary, where 29% of centres report charging parents for putting them on the list. Vancouver, where this practice was much more prevalent last year, has seen a sharp decline in the use of fees, falling from 42% of centres in 2016 to only 18% in 2017. 20 A similar fall is evident in neighbouring Richmond compared to 2016, when 29% of centres charged a wait list fee. Interestingly, this decline experienced in British Columbia’s cities does not have a basis in a policy change, as was the case in Ontario. 21 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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