Bill 207: Affordable and Accessible Child Care Act

This bill directly affects anyone running a licensed child care operation in Nova Scotia — whether that's a small home daycare, a community-based non-profit centre, or a larger for-profit chain. For-profit providers are the most significantly impacted: the bill would cut off their access to government capital and operational funding for any new spaces, effectively freezing their ability to grow with public support. Not-for-profit and public providers, on the other hand, would be the exclusive recipients of new government-funded expansion. All funded providers, regardless of structure, would be required to join a centralized waitlist system and transition to a new subsidy model where the government pays the gap between their fees and the $10-per-day target directly to them rather than through flat-amount subsidies.