Conservative leader Stephen Harper gives the thumbs up with his daughter Rachel and his wife Laureen Harper on outside the campaign bus on Parliament Hill on May 23, 2004. Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government may be limping into an October election amidst the unfolding scandal surrounding SNC-Lavalin, but they have a less-than-secret weapon: the hundreds of dollars landing each month in the bank account of the average Canadian family.
The Liberals introduced the Canada Child Benefit in 2016, providing parents with payments indexed to household income to target lower-income families. In last year’s federal budget, they announced the CCB would increase […]
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