Trudeau announces $37 Billion in child care deals with 11 provinces and territories

Trudeau announces $37 Billion: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is yet to leave the office officially after announcing his retirement from the prime ministership. Before leaving the office he is signing powerful decisions and policies to maintain the long term goal of the country. In the current decision, pm announces to release approximately $37 billion financial assistance under the child care deals with all 11 provinces and territories in the country.

If you are also living in Canada and taking care of a child then can apply for the program where you can check the eligibility criteria, procedure to claim the payment and the details of the current announcement by Trudeau regarding 37 billion dollars in upcoming years.

Trudeau Signed $37 Billion for Child care deals

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an agreement to increase the funding for child care by 3% for next 4 years. The program will be implemented from 2027 and 2028 and after that eligible provinces will get the budget to build child Care Centres for the special care of the children.

They are spending different amounts for different provinces according to the need which is calculating a total 37 billion CAD to all the territories and provinces. Payment will be send from the Federal government to implement the newly build child Care Centres in different locations across the country.

Child care centre is National Building program

During his announcement, the Prime Minister described the importance of the child care centre and linked it with the National Building program. The government is already running the child care and early learning agreements for many years and now extending the program for next 4 years between 2027 to 2031. Eligible students will able to take admission in these child Care Centres and increase their overall development.

Investment Will increase $10 on average cost Daily

According to the reports, the government is focusing to create new species for 250,000 students in the country. It will make an additional burden on the state to spend one time payment to build a child care centre. Apart from the one time investment, the state government will also be required to spend regular investment which is expected to cost by $10 per day in each new space. So it will be 10 time higher than the number of the species in the country.

The distribution of the $37 Billion amount to all provinces and territories

There are total of 11 provinces and territories in the country where the Federal government is releasing financial assistance to build child care and Day Care Centres in different locations. The range of the amount will be ranged according to the demand of the child Care Centres and the financial status of the province or territory.

The New Scotia will get $1.05 Billion amount to implement the program and the New Brunswick will get the amount of $876 millions accordingly. Check the following table to know the detailed information of the distribution of the amount to implement the program in the country.

3% increment in the program

The Government of Canada has announced to implement the child care plan where they were supposed to create 250000 new affordable species in different locations in Canada. During the implementation program in 2021 they prepared a budget of $30 billion and distributed the payment to all the participating provinces and territories. But after completing approximately 5 years and presenting the progress report of the program, the authority finds that the program is working with very slow progress.

The only created new 150000 child care special instead of 250000. Program was started for 5 years in 2025 so it will end in 2026. So after completing the 5 years, the government will revise the program from 2027 to 2031. So the new announcement will be implemented from 2027 onwards.