联邦将安大略省托育协议延长至2031年 13分钟前 时长 安大略省与联邦政府已同意将该省全国可负担托育计划的期限再延长四年，但协议并未承诺进一步降低父母支付的托育费用。
Feds extend Ontario child-care agreement to 2031 13 minutes ago Duration Ontario and the federal government have agreed to extend the national affordable child-care program in the province for another four years, but it comes with no promises of further lowering the fees parents pay.
该省是仅有的两个尚未达成初始五年期之后长期协议的省份之一，另一个是阿尔伯塔省。确保至少到2031年的资金支持，将给托育机构和父母带来一定确定性。
The province is one of only two, including Alberta, that had not reached longer-term deals beyond the program's initial five years, and securing funding until at least 2031 will give operators and parents some certainty.
但协议未必能确保该计划实现其核心目标——将父母承担的托育费用降至平均每天10加元。
But what it may not do is see the program live up to its signature goal — lowering parent fees to an average of $10 a day.
安大略省尚未实现每天10加元的托育计划目标，多伦多等候名单持续增长 专家：安大略省应增加托育名额，而非只关注费用 目前约一半省份的平均托育费用达到这一水平，而安大略省的平均费用为每天19加元，最高为22加元。
Ontario yet to meet $10 a day child-care program goal as waitlists keep growing in Toronto Ontario should create more child care spaces, instead of focusing on cost alone: expert While about half of the provinces are offering average fees at that level, Ontario's are an average of $19 a day, capped at $22.
在与联邦政府签订的这份新的四年协议中，安大略省承诺将托育费用维持在现有水平，直至2027年6月30日。此后的安排仍有待讨论。
In its new four-year agreement with the federal government, Ontario has committed to maintain fees at that level until June 30, 2027. What happens after that is still up for discussion.
联邦就业与家庭部长帕蒂·哈朱表示，这份协议为安大略省的父母和托育机构提供了稳定保障。
The agreement provides stability for Ontario parents and child-care operators, federal Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu said.
“显然，这是一项充满挑战的工作，但它也取得了不起的成果。”她在接受采访时说。
"Obviously this has been a challenging piece of work, but it's been an amazing piece of work," she said in an interview.
“即使平均费用为19加元，安大略省仍有一些父母每名孩子可节省约9,000加元。”部长：等候名单继续增长 这份四年协议将获得联邦政府提供的120亿加元，此外，安大略省还将从哈朱今年早些时候宣布的全国计划新增54亿加元资金中获得自己的份额。
"There are still parents that are saving in Ontario about $9,000 per child, even with the rate being an average of $19." Waitlists continue to grow: minister The four-year agreement comes with $12 billion from the federal government, and on top of that Ontario will also get its share of an additional $5.4 billion for the national program that Hajdu announced earlier this year.
安大略省教育部长保罗·卡兰德拉表示，至少在短期内，这笔新增资金将填补安大略省的财政缺口。
The new money addresses Ontario's fiscal hole, at least in the short term, Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra said.
“[哈朱部长]意识到她的项目存在巨大资金缺口，后来又争取到了更多资金。这让我们至少有可能按照目前的收费水平，撑到[2027年]年底。”他在一次采访中说。
"[Minister Hajdu] understood that there was a massive shortfall in her program and came back with more money, and this allows us to at least get probably to the end of [2027] with the current fees that we're at," he said in an interview.
“如果他们希望把收费降得更低，就必须大幅增加拨款。但目前的情况为家长和托儿机构运营方提供了很好的稳定性。因此，对于她所能取得的成果，我非常满意。”五年过去了，安大略省表示，联邦托儿项目正面临长期可持续性风险。哈朱说，她越来越多地从家长那里听到有关托儿服务名额供应情况的问题。自全国性项目推动需求增长以来，安大略省一些地区的等候名单持续变长，部分地区的增幅甚至达到数百个百分点。
"If they want to get down lower, then they're going to have to provide significantly more dollars to do that. But this provides good stability for parents and for the operators. So I'm very happy with what she's been able to accomplish." 5 years on, Ontario says long-term viability of federal daycare program at risk Hajdu said she has been hearing from parents more on the availability of child care. Waitlists in some regions of Ontario have continued to grow, in some cases by several hundred per cent since before the national program sparked increased demand.
根据安大略省与联邦政府达成的协议，该省本应在今年前新增8.6万个可负担托儿名额，但目前新增数量接近6万个，仍未达到目标。
The province was supposed to have created 86,000 affordable spaces by this year under the deal with the federal government, but has so far fallen short at just shy of 60,000.
卡兰德拉表示，该省仍在努力实现这一目标，并预计未来一年将有大量托儿名额投入使用，因为在建的新学校大多都配套设有托儿服务。
Calandra said the province continues to work toward that target and expects a good deal of spaces to become available in the next year, as most new schools under construction have child care attached.
安大略省财政问责官估计，费用下调带来的需求将使新增托儿名额的需求量接近22万个。
Ontario's financial accountability officer has estimated that the demand spurred by lower fees would put the need for new spaces closer to 220,000.