A by-the-numbers look at the new child benefit’s impact on local poverty rates
Dec 22, 2016 | 3:45 PM
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OTTAWA — In June, the federal government released estimates about local impacts on child poverty rates in some of Canada’s biggest cities. Documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act show the original estimates were somewhat off, and that the government received revised estimates in July of the number of children in eight cities that would be lifted above the low-income cutoff, one relative measure of poverty in Canada. Here is what the documents say:
Montreal
Original estimate: 30,600 children lifted out of poverty
Revised estimate: 35,000
