There are three separate day care issues: affordability, supply, and choice.

No one is going to disagree that families, particularly lower income and/or single parent families, need more subsidies to make daycare affordable. The NDP's proposal speaks to this issue, though it is somewhat of a baseball bat approach.

The Quebec model, and other subsidy models do little, if anything, to increase the supply of child care spaces. Over the past two decades, child care spaces have increased in the Lower Mainland largely, almost solely, because municipalities, starting with the City of Vancouver, have directly linked building child care centres with providing developers with increased density. This has been successful. Individuals, businesses, and non-profit organizations are not "champing at the bit" to develop new child care centres on their own.

The Quebec model also brings more public accountability, and increased regulation, classic of public service models. Choice decreases.