UPDATE: The federal government has addressed some of the concerns raised in this story. You can find information on its expanded CERB eligibility rules for self-employed Canadians here .

OTTAWA Kim Troy feels forgotten by the federal government.

For the past 13 years, the Edmonton resident has run a daycare in her home. She works 10 hours a day looking after other peoples young children. She feeds them, crafts with them; nothing in her daily routine has changed. Except, the number of children she cares for has halved. Her daily costs are nearly as high with three kids as they were with six, but its getting harder to make ends meet.

Financially, I lost more than half my income, Troy told HuffPost Canada on the phone from her home in Alberta Thursday.

Most of the children now left in her care have one parent who is an essential worker: one childs mother is a nurse, another works at a correctional facility. Troy has thought about taking on more children but her husband is hesitant, she is personally concerned, and the parents whose children she looks after also worry.

Those are new exposures that could risk everyone here.