The following is a look at the agreements signed across the country:

British Columbia

The county reached an agreement last year stating that Ottawa would work with BC to achieve an average of $ 10 per day of childcare in regulated areas for children under six before 2027. The agreement aims to create 30,000 new spaces in BC over a period of five years, with the fees for regulated areas being reduced by half by the end of 2022. was the first province to sign the Liberal bid set in the 2021 budget. Following its election in 2017, the BC NDP government launched a pilot $ 10-a-day day care program and committed during the 2020 election campaign. to extend the program to the whole province.

Yukon

The area childcare agreement includes the creation of 110 new regulated early education and childcare facilities over a five-year period, based on a plan for parents to pay an average of $ 10 a day out of pocket. . fees for regulated full-time premises for children under six years of age. The agreement also helps fund Yukon’s payroll implementation, which provides a minimum wage of almost $ 30 an hour for qualified preschool teachers. Federal funding will be used to create regulated spaces between nonprofits, public and family service providers. It will see the federal government provide nearly $ 42 million over five years of childcare.

Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories signed a $ 51 million deal with Ottawa in December 2021 that would immediately cut childcare costs in half and eventually see the price drop to $ 10 a day in five years. The agreement will also create 300 new kindergartens in the territory by 2026. Northwest Territory Prime Minister Caroline Cochrane attends a press conference on early learning and childcare with Trudeau in Ottawa on December 15, 2021. (Justin Tang / The Canadian Press)

Alberta

Alberta signed a $ 3.8 billion federally funded deal in November for five years. Childcare fees will be reduced by half by the end of this year and will be reduced by an average of $ 10 per day by 2026. The agreement makes all types of licensed childcare facilities up to kindergarten eligible. It is also planned to create 42,500 new regulated areas for early education and child care by the end of March 2026. Trinto rightly sees Alberta Prime Minister Jason Kenney make a statement on childcare in Edmonton, November 15, 2021. (Jeff McIntosh / The Canadian Press)

Nunavut

Nunavut was the last region and the second last jurisdiction in Canada to sign the agreement. The region announced the $ 66 million deal in January, which will halve kindergarten fees by half by the end of 2022 and reach $ 10 a day by 2024. Nunavut Premier PJ Akeeagok said 238 new kindergarten sites by 2026. The area has a long-term shortage of daycare centers and most of the 25 communities in the area do not have licensed facilities, instead relying on home care. To increase the number of points, the Nunavut government has stated that it hopes to create new kindergarten spaces in schools and empty buildings.

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan signed an agreement with Ottawa in August last year to reduce the cost of childcare for children under six to $ 10 a day by 2025-2026. However, parental fees will be halved by the end of 2022. This is done through grants, with retroactive effect until July 2021, saving parents up to $ 400 a month. The deal will also create 28,000 new provincially regulated areas. Saskatchewan Education Minister Dustin Duncan and former Federal Minister for Families, Children and Social Development Ahmed Hussein sign a multibillion-dollar childcare agreement in August 2021. (Kirk Fraser / CBC News)

Manitoba

The county reached an agreement in August with the federal government to commit $ 1.2 billion over five years to $ 10 a day childcare by 2023. The funds will also be used to build 23,000 early education facilities and childcare for children aged six and under. The deal set a minimum wage of $ 25 an hour for certified Level 2 certified preschool teachers – although an announcement from the county in February noted that an ECE II-rated preschool teacher currently earning the minimum wage would start earning about $ 15.50 per hour.

Ontario

The $ 10.2 billion Ontario deal will halve the province’s childcare fees by the end of the year. In the short term, parents of children aged five and under in licensed childcare will start receiving discounts in May, retroactively from April 1, with a fee reduction of up to 25 percent. Further cuts are planned for September 2024 to bring Ontario to an average of $ 10 a day by September 2025. The agreement also envisions Ontario creating 86,000 childcare facilities, although that number includes more than 15,000 have already been established since 2019. Ontario also committed $ 2.9 billion for the sixth year of the agreement. A child plays during the announcement of the Ontario Child Care Agreement on Monday. (Evan Mitsui / CBC)

Quebec

Quebec reached an agreement last summer with the federal government to allow the province to be excluded from national childcare but receive its share of the program funding. Ottawa agreed to transfer $ 6 billion to the province over five years and did not impose conditions on the money, which could be used in any way the Quebec government chooses. Quebec Prime Minister François Legault has said the province is investing about $ 2.7 billion a year in the daycare program, which costs parents $ 8.50 a day per child. The provincial government estimates that another 37,000 subsidized areas are needed in the system. Legault said the agreement with Ottawa includes an understanding that the federal government will continue to transfer money to kindergartens after 2026. Trinto, left, and Quebec Prime Minister François Lego talk to a family before making an announcement of childcare funding in Montreal on August 5, 2021. (Graham Hughes / The Canadian Press)

New Brunswick

New Brunswick announced in December that it had signed a childcare agreement with Ottawa that would provide $ 491 million to create 5,700 new spaces at an average cost of $ 10 a day for parents by 2026 and increase the salaries of daycare workers. . Prime Minister Blaine Higgs said the deal would provide families with an average annual savings of $ 3,000. Under the agreement, kindergarten teachers’ salaries would increase to $ 23.47 an hour in five years.

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia signed an agreement with Ottawa shortly before last summer’s provincial elections. The $ 605 million agreement aims to create a total of 9,500 new, regulated early education and childcare facilities by the financial year 2025-26. The county said it would contribute $ 40 million over the five-year deal, in addition to the cost of the current childcare program. In February, Nova Scotia’s childcare providers were offered funding to offset a 25 per cent reduction in fees due to the deal. Becky Druhan, Minister for Education and Preschool Development, said the money includes $ 35 million from the previously announced $ 605 million federal deal and a new $ 1 million grant from the county. Former Nova Scotia Prime Minister Iain Rankin Assists in Painting at Mount Saint Vincent’s University Study Center in Halifax, July 13, 2021. (Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press)

Island of Prince Edward

Prince Edward Island signed an agreement with Ottawa last July, under which it will receive $ 120 million for $ 10 a day childcare by the end of 2024. The agreement will also halve average childcare fees by half end of 2022 for children under the age of six and the creation of more than 450 new places in the province in two years. Prime Minister Dennis King said he acknowledged that space would not be enough for all children in the county, but said more plans to create more space would be announced later.

Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador signed an agreement with Ottawa last July for $ 347 million over five years to build some 6,000 new childcare facilities. Under the agreement, the county will see a reduction in average parental pay for children under the age of six in regulated childcare to $ 15 a day from $ 25 a day in 2022 and $ 10 a day in 2023. Prime Minister Justin Trinto announced also that the agreement came with “a new all-day, year-round preschool program for four-year-olds” to be launched in 2023. A young boy smiles at the cameras as Trinto, District Education Minister Tom Osborne and Newfoundland and Labrador Prime Minister Andrew Furey, from left to right, take care of children in St. Louis. John’s, July 28, 2021, the day the county struck a $ 10-a-day childcare program with Ottawa. (Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press)