EDMONTON - Alberta's NDP leader is promising 4,000 new daycare spaces and caps on child-care fees if his party is elected March 3.
Brian Mason says an extra $268 million in funding would help create the extra spaces and make child care more affordable.
He says Alberta spends less on child care than any other province in Canada, and families pay fees that have `gone through the roof.'
His plan would limit fees for infant care to $25 a day and $9 a day for after-school care.
It would also provide additional grants to child-care centres to make it possible for them to provide decent wages for their workers.
Child-care subsidies to eligible families would also continue under the NDP.
