The 2023 alternative federal budget that gets released annually through the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has put forward a model that is income tested. It's a supplement to the Canada child benefit that is income tested using tax-filer data.
The poverty measure that is calculated with tax-filer data is the census family low income measure, which is after tax and adjusted for family size. It's a relative measure of poverty that is based on median income. Anybody who's falling below that 50% median income is considered to be poor, according to that measure.
This supplement would target families below the low income measure. It would give them additional income based on—