The search for child care in Montreal

One Mother’s search for child care in Montreal:

I have visited 2 day cares so far.  One of them is subsidized by the government, so it comes down to 7$/ day to send my kid there. The other one is private and it costs 30$/day and I get a taxes reimbursement, so the cost of day care comes down to 22$/day in my case.  I find that the difference is huge.  I know that by living in Quebec, I am quite lucky to be able to get day care for so cheap.  But I also pay a lot of income taxes.  So my husband and I will have to measure pros and cons of both daycares.  The private day care had a really nice program, whereas there was no mention of that in the public day care.   Also, the private day care looked much tidier, cleaner and better organized than the public daycare I visited.  There are other public daycares in the neighbourhood but I didn’t have a chance to go and visit them.  I am thinking that before we set our choice on a place, we will have to go and visit a couple more places.