{"id":19561,"date":"2025-07-24T03:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/19561\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T03:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:27:13","slug":"immigrant-families-threaten-legal-action-over-new-quebec-directive-limiting-daycare-access-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/19561\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant families threaten legal action over new Quebec\u00a0directive limiting daycare access &#8211; Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted July 23, 2025 4:16 pm<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated July 23, 2025 4:17 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Two families are threatening legal action over the\u00a0Quebec\u00a0government\u2019s move to deny some immigrants access to subsidized daycare spots.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753129028_943_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The two sets of parents, from France and Ukraine, are at risk of losing their children\u2019s spots in a subsidized home daycare that costs $9.35 per day.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753128969_722_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Quebec\u00a0government recently sent out a new directive stating that foreign workers with open work permits are not eligible for subsidized daycare.<\/p>\n<p>The government says it\u2019s enforcing an existing rule, but lawyers for the parents say the province is creating a restriction that is invalid and illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11300327\/3-miners-trapped-underground-bc-red-chris-copper-gold-mine\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753327633_579_cpt150280202_high.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCommunication lost with 3 miners trapped underground at B.C. mine\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11292901\/business-sentiment-bank-of-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753327633_186_e240d565cb798626b4f452ea256f29701f04857528ad5ede56bf86542e1fd463.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tWill Bank of Canada cut rates next week? How new data factors into the call\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unions representing daycare workers say hundreds of children could lose their daycare spots because of the new directive.<\/p>\n<p>The government says there\u2019s a high demand for daycare spots in\u00a0Quebec, and calls the restriction \u201ca matter of fairness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Politics<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 23, 2025 4:16 pm Updated July 23, 2025 4:17 pm 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,714,16623,16622,66],"class_list":["post-19561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-politics","tag-quebec-immigrant-childcare-directive","tag-quebec-politics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}