A study into the system of subsidised childcare in Quebec, available to all parents at a cost of $7 a day, found that children and parents were 'worse off' under the programme.
However, it concluded that the economic and other long-term gains from having two parents working may offset the stress of daycare arrangements.
The number of children in daycare in Quebec has risen by 51 per cent since the highly popular scheme started in 1997. The proportion of working mothers in Quebec has also increased by 21 per cent, more than double the figure for the rest of Canada.
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