Raising teachers' wage to ensure the supply of preschool education resources: Enlightenment of Canada's first Multilateral early learning and childcare framework

To ensure the supply of resources for under-five childcare and to promote the development of a national preschool system, Canadian provinces/territories have taken a series of measures to raise the wage of childcare teachers, including setting and adjusting the minimum hourly wage, providing a uniform or tiered hourly wage subsidy, and establishing a wage grid. While the government increases financial investment to protect funds, several concepts jointly followed by the provinces/territories also provide basic direction for raising salary. Several lessons are drawn for the wage enhancement of preschool teachers in our country:fully recognizing the necessity of increasing teachers' wage for the development of national preschool education; increasing the investment of public finance dedicated to teachers; and exploring fair and reasonable criteria for wage enhancement.