Mr. Speaker, if the government wanted to help families with young children cope with inflation, it could simply have increased the Canada child benefit.
That would have been way too easy though, so it decided to write cheques to pay for dental care for kids 12 and under. Today, the Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed that this benefit discriminates against Quebec families. Children in Quebec will get half as much as children outside Quebec. Quebeckers have 23% of the children, yet they will get only 13% of the promised $700 million.
Will the government fix this so that its dental care benefit does not discriminate against families in Quebec?