Let's see if this helps. I'm just going to keep going.
You say in the throne speech that labour is on board and that you want to create more jobs. You can't honestly be willing to use two- and three-year-olds, i.e., put them in an unproven system just to create jobs for adults, whether it's to build day cares or have people work in them. You say that you want to advance women's equality.
Sweden, where 91% of young kids are in day care, has one of the highest rates of gender workplace segregation in the world. Researcher Patricia Morgan writes that, 20 years after universal child care was implemented there, Sweden had a more “gender-segregated workforce” than “the U.S.A., U.K. and Germany”. “Indeed, it is more gender-segregated than Asian countries like China, Hong Kong and India.”
Even 30 years after the program was introduced, the OECD stated that “pay differences remain significant and are not narrowing.”
This phenomena of a pink ghetto workforce—extensively written about internationally but never mentioned by universal advocates here—is a result of forcing all families to have both parents in the paid workforce, leaving mothers to take on lesser jobs.
There's one more crucial thing. You say that you want to provide quality care and education, especially for Canada's neediest kids. However, a memorandum on child care financing co-written by one of your advisers, Armine Yalnizyan, suggested that four- and five-year-olds across the country be given full-day kindergarten, which is not good. There never was a peer-reviewed body of research backing up its implementation in Ontario. There was, however, one indisputable fact: all four- and five-year-olds suddenly found themselves all day in ratios that were anywhere from two to 15 times worse than what they had been benefiting from outside of a half-day program. While ratios are not everything, they are essential.
As a primary specialist elementary teacher who mainly taught grade 1, I know from experience that almost all young kids benefit more from low ratios with a not perfect, but pretty good adult than from a large class taught by a professional like me.