There are thousands of dollars in the cost of day care

But due to the cases or symptoms of Kovit-19 in this facility, he has been forced to keep his daughters at home for almost half the time since October. So between $ 3,000 and $ 4,000 she estimates she was “thrown in the trash”, not to mention the impact of her work.

“There is real suffering, discouragement, great exhaustion. We feel abandoned,” Blake M said.^Me Opium.

For the same reasons the situation is similar to that of Ariel Sognon, who attended his son Leandre’s daycare for only four and a half days from November to January.

“It doesn’t make sense, so we took our baby out of day care. It’s hard to be financially dependent on my wife, ”says a woman from Cowensville.

Myriam Lapointe-Gagnon, the instigator of the Ma place au travail movement, was not surprised by these testimonies. He has received hundreds of such stories in the inbox over the past few months.

“This is a humanitarian crisis for families in Quebec, and there is no financial assistance to help them,” he denounces, highlighting the amounts allocated to businesses to fight the epidemic.

“Many people can’t afford to throw away more than $ 45 a day [sur une longue période], When depriving himself of the salary of keeping the child at home. It makes people miserable, ”he said^Me Lapointe Gagnon.

Many players on the field say that this problem could have been avoided if many of the non-subsidized day care centers had been converted into subsidized outlets.

3,500 are expected to be replaced by the end of 2022, but this is not enough for the remaining 66,500 seats, and parents are expected to pay the full price.

“We offered him solutions [au ministre de la Famille], But he did not want to listen to us. There, he pulls back on his plan [de conversion de places] Says Mary-Claude Colin, president of the Coalition of Non-Grant Private Day Care Centers in Quebec.