Specifically, it provides detailed information on This report, The National Child Benefit Progress the contributions of the Government of Canada Report: 2004, is the sixth in a series of progress through the Canada Child Tax Benefit and reports provided by Ministers since the joint the NCB Supplement component, along with NCB initiative was launched in 1998. [...] The Government of Canada's Since the introduction of the NCB initiative, Contribution to the a number of approaches to adjusting social assistance and child benefits have evolved. [...] CCTB benefit structure, all families in receipt of the NCB Supplement receive the maximum As its initial contribution to the NCB initiative, level of the base benefit of the CCTB. [...] Families the Government of Canada committed to with net incomes above $22,615 but below $850 million for the NCB Supplement, in $35,000 continue to receive the maximum level addition to the $5.1 billion per year that had of the base benefit of the CCTB, but the level been provided under the former Child Tax of NCB Supplement to which they are entitled Benefit. [...] These increases will bring the projected in 2005-2006, compared to $2.6 billion in benefits to $3,243 for the first child, $3,016 for 1995-1996.6 the second child, and $3,020 for each additional child by July 2007.5 5 To target the increase in the NCB Supplement to lower-income families, the income threshold at which the NCB Supplement begins to be phased out was adjusted, keeping the reduction ra.

Public reporting has been used experimentally in federal-provincial relations since the mid-1990s as an accountability mechanism to promote policy effectiveness, intergovernmental cooperation, and democratic legitimacy. Our understanding of how well it is working, however, remains limited to very specific policy sectors – even though this information is essential to policy makers in Canada and beyond. Overpromising and Underperforming? offers a deeper analysis of the use of new accountability mechanisms, paying particular attention to areas in which federal spending power is used. This is the first volume to specifically analyse the accountability features of Canadian intergovernmental agreements and to do so systematically across policy sectors. Drawing on the experiences of other federal systems and multilevel governance structures, the contributors investigate how public reporting has been used in various policy fields and the impact it has had on policy-making and intergovernmental relations.

In this timely volume, contributors from various disciplines analyze reaction and resistance to feminism in several areas of law and policy � child custody, child poverty, sexual harassment, and sexual assault � and in a number of institutional sites, such as courts, legislatures, families, the mainstream media, and the academy. Collectively, their studies paint a complicated, often contradictory, picture of feminism, law, and social change, offering feminists and activists empirically grounded knowledge to develop legal and political strategies for change.

Information in this supplement was obtained from special tabulations of the Statistics Canada annual Survey of Consumer Finances. The information pertains to economic families with at least one child under age 18 and covers such matters as: Child Tax Benefit & National Child Benefit payments, low-income thresholds, low income trends, percentage by which family income is below or above the low-income threshold, percentage change due to government payments in the amount by which family income is below the low-income threshold, employment & number of weeks worked in low-income families, average earnings as percentage of low-income threshold for low-income families, and social assistance trends. Historical data going back to 1984 are included.