These women say $10-a-day daycare is their top federal election issue | CBC News
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Cassidy Vaughan wants to have a second child, but says the prospect of doing so without $10-a-day child care is "scary.""Child care can drown you," she said. "That's like, a mortgage payment, or you know, a car payment."The pharmacy technician was able to return to the workforce last year after finding a subsidized daycare spot for her son, Parker, at the Natural Wonders Early Learning Centre in Swift Current, Sask.Vaughan pays roughly $220/month. She estimates the same daycare spot would cost at least $700/month without the federal-provincial program.With two children, she'd be on the hook for at least $1400/month, compared to about $440.Like many other mothers who work outside the home, Vaughan says affordable child care — and more specifically the continuation of the $10-a-day daycare subsidy — is her top issue this federal election."If this extra huge payment gets put on to people again, it will financially cripple people."Federal parties on child careIn 2021, the Liberal governmen...