I think the role for the federal government is to establish very flexible standards so that in any bilateral agreement, the provinces can have a choice in how to use any money the federal government is giving.
You mentioned the CCB. It's not expressly a child care benefit, but money for parents. It's also a very effective way of ensuring that people have increased resources to establish and create the diversity of care they prefer in their communities.
You also spoke of being from Brampton. I think intergenerational care happens in homes there, with grandparents living with families and kids. Again, some of this is based on cultural preference.
I think universal child care was always a bad idea. I think it's a particularly bad idea in a pandemic, because under these circumstances, parents are keeping their kids out of schools and out of spaces to protect elders living in their homes. It is short-sighted to try to capitalize off the pandemic to create a so-called universal system that people are not choosing to use.