Effects of a low-fee universal childcare policy, initiated in Québec, the second most populous province in Canada, on … 1997, licensed and regulated providers of childcare services began offering daycare spaces at the reduced fee of $5 per day …

Québec, the second most populous province in Canada. Providers of childcare services licensed by the Department of the Family … successive years, the government reduced the age requirement and engaged in a plan to create new childcare facilities and pay for … the cost of additional $5 per day childcare spaces. By September 2000, the low-fee policy applied to all children aged 0 …