Reality check—Costs of all day schooling/daycare: BC Government says it’s studying costs of all day kindergarten for age 3-5, but no costs are mentioned in the consultation paper.
$11,500/yr/child age 2-5: Quebec spending on daycare operation costs only—capital, training, bureaucracy, pension funds are more (Low Fee Regulated Childcare Policy (broken link), CIRPEE, p. 22 footnote) (broken Link)
$26,972/yr/child age 1-5: Sweden’s spending on daycare/preschool. See datasheet below:
Jul 5, 2008. Bo C. Pettersson. Kids First Parent Association of Canada – datasheet (PDF): “The cost of communal childcare in Sweden“
kidsfirstcanada.org 