New figures tabled in Parliament estimate Ottawa's child care funding plan will create up to 5,750 new Manitoba jobs in early childhood education.
The new data are part of tabulations of the Trudeau government's 30-billion-dollar pledge to lower child care costs to an average daily cost of 10-dollars by 2025.
Previously, the agreement announced for Manitoba would create an estimated 23,000 child care spaces, but did not disclose the anticipated number of new staff.
Manitoba has also pledged to boost the hourly wage of child care workers to a threshold of 25 dollars, but it remains unclear when that would apply.
