MPP Teresa Armstrong, NDP critic for Child Care, released the following statement in response to funding cuts to affordable child care:<\/p>\n
\u201cFamilies across Ontario deserve access to affordable and reliable childcare. Instead, we\u2019re seeing wait lists explode across the province as affordable childcare becomes harder to find.<\/em><\/p>\n Today, instead of adding funding for affordable childcare spaces, Ford is choosing to take it away. He\u2019s constantly playing games with childcare funding, instead of ensuring stability for workers and families.<\/em><\/p>\n We should be making it easier for childcare centres to offer affordable childcare and encourage people to work in a sector that offers fair wages for fair work. Giving a $2 an hour pay cut for daycare workers? Who does that?<\/em><\/p>\n We need to support the workers and support our kids. It\u2019s as simple as that. Families and workers deserve better.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MPP Teresa Armstrong, NDP critic for Child Care, released the following statement in response to funding cuts to affordable child care: \u201cFamilies across Ontario deserve access to affordable and reliable …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 22:44:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69023,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69022\/revisions\/69023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}