Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government has struck an agreement with British Columbia on federal child care funding

Ottawa, B.C. Governments reach out on child care funding, Trudeau announces

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government has struck an agreement with British Columbia on federal child care funding.

Trudeau says the agreement says it will work with the province of Ottawa to reach an average of $10-per-day child care in regulated locations for children under the age of six before 2027.

He says the deal aims to build 30,000 new locations in BC. Over the next five years, the fees for regulated venues will be halved by the end of 2022.

B.C. is the first province to sign a liberal proposal set out in April's budget, which promised $27.2 billion over five years starting this fiscal year, in new spending that the governing party aims to give provinces to daycare. to provide. To give subsidy

The specific strings attached to the pledge will dictate what types of child care may qualify for federal funding, and how much parenting fees should be reduced over the next five years.

The federal NDP says liberals have been promising unfinished child care since 1993, and signs of a possible election undermine the government's stated priority of helping parents.

Trudeau began his day behind closed doors in Metro Vancouver, discussing B.C.'s wildfires and punishing the recent heat wave with members of his cabinet's Incident Response Group.

He has to spend most of the rest of the day in Coquitlam, where he attends B.C. Will meet. Premier John Horgan, who joined her for the child-care announcement.

The prime minister is also holding an afternoon meeting with the mayor of Lytton and indigenous leaders of that Fraser Canyon community to discuss the recovery from the wildfires that devastated the village last week.

After visits to Salt Stay, Trudeau is on a cross-country tour this week. Mary, Ont., and for Alberta and Saskatchewan.

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh started his tour from Vancouver Island.

Singh and local New Democrat MP Alistair McGregor are set to make announcements about the party's housing plan in Duncan.