Subsidized Child Care: Provincial Budget

Dwight Duncan Dept: In a four-page letter dated Jan. 25 sent by Ford to Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, and obtained by the Star , the mayor asks for money for road construction and repair, public transit projects, a Fort York visitor centre and the renewal of programs to fund subsidized child care, housing and services for immigrants, according to The Star. The city-provincial cost-sharing agreement is not indexed to inflation and funding remains at 1995 levels, Ford wrote and the city needs another $11.5 million to make up the difference and mayor Rob Ford, who campaigned on the city having a spending not a revenue problem, is asking the Ontario government for an injection of more than $150 million in the provincial budget expected in late March, the Star has learned. Ford, who last week passed a city budget that freezes taxes primarily by drawing on one-time surpluses and reserve funds, notes the city manages a child-care system that serves 53,402 children, and manages 24,000 child-care fee subsidies and a wait list with another 17,000 names. As reported in the news.
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