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Team Trudeau was all over social media on the weekend, promoting its favourite sop to the Canadian middle class and those working hard to join it.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau in his budget earlier this year promised to index the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) to inflation two years earlier than planned. The shift happened July 20, providing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his crew an opportunity to remind us of all the good they’ve done by overhauling this Harper-era policy.

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“Moms and Dads, today’s the day! The Canada Child Benefit gets more generous and rises with the cost of living from now on,” Trudeau said on Twitter.

There were more Liberal posts like that one, many more.

Chrystia Freeland, the foreign affairs minister, tweeted that the CCB had helped “almost 6,000 children” in her Toronto riding, along with parents such as “Stephen,” a father of four girls, “who is saving for their education and is better off thanks to the investments we are making.”