(Montreal) The Minister of Families, Mathieu Lacombe, announced on Sunday that he had authorized the creation of 14,000 new child care spaces, which should be available within two years.
Posted at 3:08 p.m.
This includes 8,000 places in CPE and 6,000 in subsidized daycares, he said at a press conference in Montreal.
Last October, Prime Minister François Legault had promised the addition of 37,000 places by 2025. He had specified that 20,000 of these places were already in progress.
Quebec then launched a call for projects to fill the rest.
With Sunday’s additions, there is therefore a total of 34,000 places out of 37,000 that are being created.
While waiting for the new infrastructures to be put in place, the CPEs and subsidized daycare centers which have received authorization to provide these places will be able to “offer them in temporary facilities”, such as vacant premises, indicated the Minister.
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The Minister of Families, Mathieu Lacombe
The director general of the Quebec Association of Early Childhood Centers, Geneviève Bélisle, added that thanks to an agreement with the government, CPEs will be able to build prefabricated houses.
According to her, this will allow them to speed up the process and “put the effort of several CPEs together to really develop concepts and plans”.
She announced that tenders will soon be launched for the design and manufacture of the houses.
This article was produced with the financial support of the Facebook and The Canadian Press News Fellowships.