A Belleville councillor says the province must maintain child care funding to bridge the 63-million dollar a year gap left by Ottawa’s pullout.
The province recently announced the bridge-funding for the years 2010 to 2011. Councillor Garnet Thompson told City Council this week that the cost would be “astronomical” for municipalities if this funding is dropped. He says M-P-Ps should be urged to keep the money flowing. The Association of Municipalities of Ontario says thousands of child spaces will be lost, and parents unable to go to work, if the funding is not maintained.
