text: I'm actually screaming just as loudly about the child benefit.  While I do think taxpayers should fund investment in children (childcare, education, preventative healthcare in the form of subsidized community sports and exercise facilities), I think the Federal Liberals' Canada Child Benefit is a shameless bribe to low and middle-income families.  It's even more ridiculous than Harper's vote-grabbing Universal Child Care Benefit and fitness & arts tax credits.  Even though I received some cash under Harper's boutique credits, they were one of the reasons I didn't vote Conservative in the last election, after having voted so in the past.