When the Doug Ford government signed on to the feds’ $10-a-day child-care plan just over two years ago, it didn’t take a psychic to foresee the problems that would follow.

The low-fee child-care plan was billed as being universal, but despite a commitment of $10.2 billion over five years from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government, there won’t be enough money to serve all the eligible children in Ontario. Even if the money were available, it is unlikely that the province could produce enough early-childhood educators or build the required care-centre spaces.