Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with children at a YMCA-YWCA day care centre in Winnipeg, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Trudeau was in Winnipeg to highlight their plan to spend $7 billion over 10 years to create more child care spaces across Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
March 29, 2017 - 1:09 PM
OTTAWA - The Liberals have promised to spend $7.5 billion over a decade on child care to fund spaces in provinces and territories, as well as indigenous child care on and off-reserve. Here are some numbers in the pledge and how the funding stacks up:
$500 million: Federal money pledged for the next fiscal year, which starts this weekend.
$870 million: Annual federal funding on child care in 2027, the peak of the decade-long ramp up in spending under the plan.
$100 million: Amount to be spent annually over the next three years on indigenous child care on and off-reserve.
40,000: Spaces for children five and under the Liberals say could be created over the next three years with the money in the budget.
543,161: Spaces for children five and under in regulated centres in 2014, according to the most recent report from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit.
1.2 million: Spaces for children 12 and under in regulated centres in 2014, according to the Childcare Resource and Research Unit.
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