Conservatives "choice" in child care

This is a really important study - it shows that Conservative's "child care" plan will, as is typical for Conservative policy, benefit the rich the most and the poor the least.

Quotes:

The face value of the Child Care Allowance is $1,200 for each child under age 6. But the scheme’s true value would be less than
$1,200 because it would increase families’
taxable income and thus trigger both reductions
in federal and provincial/territorial income tested
benefits and increases in taxes.

The Child Care Allowance is unfair because it would pay working poor and modest income
families smaller benefits than middle andupper-income families.

Most Canadian families need and use child care outside the home so that parents can
work in the paid labour force or study. The proposed Choice in Child Care Allowance would
do little if anything to increase the supply of
affordable, quality child care. Nor would the
scheme do much to help families pay for child
care, since it would offset only a fraction of
the cost of child care.