Parents across the country are seeing their childcare fees reduced by 50 per cent on average, as part of the federal government's early learning and childcare agreements.
Lyndsay Macdonald, a coordinator with the Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario, says despite the drop, there is still a shortage of early childhood educators that threatens the success of the national childcare program.
According to the 2021 census, early childhood educators and assistants made an average of 26-thousand, 760-dollars a year.
A spokesperson for Employment and Social Development Canada says the government has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help recruit workers.