A paper we wrote is called "Look Before You Leap: The Real Costs and Complexities of National Daycare” for a reason. It's not just a budgeting attempt of what national day care costs; it leads you to discuss and consider all of the very significant complexities. There will be nothing easy and nothing fast about putting this in place, and there is no way that it will be available as a COVID economic recovery plan.
The CCB, the Canada child benefit, is already in place. It exists and helps all parents already, and that's something that could be a useful tool in getting support to parents in need.