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11 See the Quebec government fee calculator at http://www.budget.finances.gouv.qc.ca/budget/
outils/garde-net-en.asp, The additional contribution is reduced by 50% for a 2nd child and there
is none for 3rd and subsequent children.
12 Statistics Canada, Custom tabulation from Census 2016, adjusted for inflation using cansim
326-0021.
13 Ibid.
14 Note that Manitoba and Prince Edward Island both use a combination of operational funding
(unit funding) and a fee subsidy to pay the fee on behalf of lower income families.
15 See Cansim 326-0020 All-Items CPI July 2016 to July 2017 the midpoints of when the child care
surveys were conducted.
16 See Cansim 326-0020 All-Items CPI July 2014 to July 2017 the midpoints of when the child
care surveys were conducted.
17 Regulated child care in Quebec falls under two systems: the first, which includes non-profit
centres de la petite enfance and some for-profit garderies, is substantially operationally-funded
and has set fees as described; the second (a newer, faster-growing sector) is made up of nonoperationally-funded
garderies that do not have set fees, for which parents receive a substantial
rebate from the provincial government. It was not possible to separate these for this survey.
18 David Macdonald and Martha Friendly, “A Growing Concern: 2016 Child Care Fees in Canada’s
Big Cities”, December 2016, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, figure 6.
19 Ibid
20 David Macdonald and Martha Friendly, “A Growing Concern: 2016 Child Care Fees in Canada’s
Big Cities”, December 2016, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, figure 7.
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