The child poverty rate in New Brunswick is 21 per cent but rises to 27 per cent in Saint John according to the Human Development Council.
The Liberal candidate in Saint John-Rothesay Wayne Long maintains his party’s proposed child benefit will leave families with more money, lifting 100 thousand families and 315 thousand children across the country out of poverty.
Long says the Liberals will also increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement for single low income seniors by 10 per cent and has no intention of getting rid of income splitting for seniors.
Long says the middle class tax cut being proposed by the Liberals will result in 670 additional dollars a year for each person and a family with two children earning 45 thousand dollars a year will get a child benefit of more than 98 hundred dollars under the party’s proposed child benefit.
