Qué funciona en Canadá

The evidence shows Canada has implemented several major policies to reduce barriers to economic participation and digital inclusion. Canada's $10-a-Day Child Care programme cut parental child-care spending from ~16% to 5% of after-tax family income and correlates with record maternal labour-force participation of 79.6% by 2023, with an estimated 29,000 additional mothers employed. The Digital Literacy Exchange Program reached 650,000+ Canadians from underserved groups over 2018–2025 with CAD $47.1M in funding. K-Net has expanded community-owned broadband and telehealth infrastructure to over 100 First Nations communities since 1994, though the evidence notes hundreds of First Nations still lack adequate broadband. These practices demonstrate progress on labour participation, digital access and childcare affordability, though gaps remain in broadband coverage and child-care space creation (only 112,000 of 250,000+ targeted spaces delivered by 2024/25).