I think the other important point is that the design of the universal child care benefit is one that looks at the income in the hands of the lowest-earning parent. It creates a real problem in the sense that you have families with one person who is working and another person who may stay at home, and people who are actually better off would receive the higher amount than where both spouses have to work. Usually, families who aren't able to make those choices may receive less of a benefit. That also disallows that benefit from being integrated with the larger Canada child tax benefit. Therefore, you get a lot of confusion in terms of how the benefits work.
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