Section 5 · Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act

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5Purpose#

The purpose of this Act is to

(a)set out the Government of Canada’s vision for a Canada-wide, community-based early learning and child care system and its commitment to ongoing collaboration with the provinces and Indigenous peoples to support them in their efforts to establish and maintain such a system;

(b)set out the government’s commitment to maintaining long-term funding for the provinces and Indigenous peoples for the establishment and maintenance of that system;

(c)set out the principles that guide the ongoing federal investments in that system;

(d)establish the National Advisory Council on Early Learning and Child Care;

(e)further the progressive realization of the right to benefit from child care services as recognized in the Convention on the Rights of the Child; and

(f)contribute to the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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