be honest: did this happen even once?

people are going to be really satisfied when they have to pay nearly 2.7x as much and then competition is made illegal by law lol

from what i see googling this, the price per kilowatt hour is over double maine's rate in both countries. does this turn out to be cheaper through some other fees?

oh. i thought i was looking at the right thing with that

that subsidy has a household income limit of 80k CAD, or 58k USD. for a household income of 70k CAD on a family of four its still around 500 dollars a month depending on the ages and assuming 5 days a week.

calculator here

maine's subsidy program has an income limit of 84k usd for a family of 4 according to this. without knowing how much op makes or the maine rates, it might not be that much better

​ in this pdf it describes the number of people benefitting from the program:

>Through the Parent Subsidy, roughly 3,500 families with an annual income of less than $80,000 have better access to quality early learning and childcare.

that seems shockingly low. i would bet the number of people benefitting from the maine program is at least 4 times that. can't really find this info and i'm bored of reading about it now. safe to say you are heavily misrepresenting that program. with such a low income cap there's no way it "pays for itself" by incentivizing workforce participation. it only would benefit single parent households or students. two parents working full time at new brunswick's minimum wage would place them pretty close to the income cap

the people that make these threads and spam "nimby" probably do not believe in nice areas. the better off the area the more spiteful the posts are about not wanting low income housing nearby