(Montreal) Non-subsidized private daycares are closed for one day by their owner on Wednesday. Representatives of several of them are due to demonstrate in front of parliament this afternoon.
Unsubsidized private daycares have complained for years about an unfair situation vis-à-vis other daycare services that have subsidized spaces.
With the latest salary increases paid to workers in early childhood centers and those offered to them as part of the present negotiation, the non-subsidized private daycares feel that they can no longer keep up and fear losing their staff.
The coalition that represents them is now calling for a plan to convert all non-subsidized private daycare centers. And she wants a date for the process to begin.
In an interview on Wednesday, the president of the coalition, Marie-Claude Collin, expressed her impatience and affirmed that Wednesday’s demonstration was aimed precisely at obtaining a date for the start of the conversion.