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Dear Community Partners,

As the NDP Education Critic, I fully support the idea of full-day learning for four- and five-year-olds in Ontario. However, I have heard a number of concerns from child care and family support centres, schools, early childhood educators and parents about how the program is being implemented. These concerns range from lay-offs of early childhood education workers to unacceptably large waitlists for infant and toddler daycare spaces. Many stakeholders have also expressed their concerns about the systemic underfunding of schools, which would make the implementation of the promised wrap-around care very difficult.

Since last year, my office has been meeting with local early childhood education stakeholders in order to learn more about the impact of the full-day kindergarten program. On March 28th and 29th, I would like to include both parents and community partners in this discussion to share experiences and thoughts on the full-day kindergarten program.

I would appreciate it if you could post and forward the attached flyers to your networks in Trinity-Spadina so that community members have the opportunity to have their voices heard. The first meeting will be held Monday March 28th from 7-8 pm at the Church of the Messiah located at 240 Avenue Road (at Dupont). The second meeting will be held at St. Stephen’s Community House (91 Bellevue Ave) from 7-8 pm.

Please note that daycare spaces will be available by sending an RSVP to Ashley Lukach ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it /416-603-9664).