You: For sure the reno credit kept people employed and things like the daycare program create real and sustained growth
Me: I've seen zero evidence that your opinion on these two programs are actually true. The Daycare is really just a convenience program and is equivalent to a tax reduction. That is, limited impact. Given it's impossible to find a space in daycare, this program really hasn't changed much. Feel free to provide a link to back up your opinion. Otherwise, it's just mental masturbation.
You; The anti-child poverty focus to me was the most important as its benefits are long term and sustained. A child growing up in poverty is a multidecade liability so seeing it as an emergency is the correct way to treat it. Many of these programs do not increase the GDP but prevent its decline when companies are slashing and burning.
Me; The so-called "anti-child poverty" focus was really called an increase to the "Canada Child Benefit. You're just wordsmithing which is the equivalent of self-pleasuring.
Reducing poverty (from one perspective) is the ultimate purpose of increased economic growth and there is a lot of StatsCan data to back up the opinions that this significantly reduced poverty. Thus, this was one of the few useful programs introduced in the last 9 years.
Personally, I would cap OAS for those seniors who have more than $60K income (it's currently $150K IIRC) and redirect this funding to dramatically increase the Canada Child Benefit as well as provincial programs such as ODSP and the Foster System. Again, no direct impact to GDP but certainly a bigger benefit than most of the bullshit programs proposed that seem to only benefit rich, wealthy Boomers. I give zero shits about so-called "poor" seniors which are THE richest demographic that selfishly suck up gov't benefits out of proportion to their numbers.
