Ontario’s auditor general says the province isn’t on track to meet its targets on child-care fees, number of spaces created or percentage of qualified staff within the $10-a-day system.

Auditor General Shelley Spence’s office is releasing four special reports today, including one looking at Ontario’s progress in implementing the national child-care program.

While several provinces have already lowered parent fees to an average of $10 a day, Spence says Ontario is not on track to meet that based on its current plans.

When Ontario signed the child-care deal with the federal government in 2022, it agreed to create 86,000 new spaces within the system by December 2026 but the auditor says the province only achieved about 75 per cent of its interim target at the end of 2024.

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