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When Gallant and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the $71-million agreement in August, they said some money would go toward reducing daycare fees for low-income families, creating more spaces, implementing an inclusion policy, and improving learning opportunities for workers.<\/p>\n

Kenny said more details on wages and on funding daycare spaces would be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

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Kenny says the plan will be an incentive to daycare operators to become centres of excellence. (Brian Chisholm\/CBC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Of the $12.2 million detailed Thursday, $4.7 million will be for one-time “quality improvement grants” to help daycares improve their equipment and materials, and $7.5 million will be annual “quality grants” to improve services at designated centres.<\/p>\n

The federal-provincial agreement is for three years, but Kenny said the annual quality grants will continue beyond that because any new government will likely not want to cancel the funding.<\/p>\n

One daycare centre in each school district will be chosen as a centre of excellence, where researchers can develop new teaching methods and other daycare workers can get training<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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