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Stephen Harper announced a multi-billion-dollar package of tax breaks Thursday that includes income-splitting for couples with kids — a Conservative election promise from 2011 that critics have said would benefit too few Canadians.

The prime minister says the Conservative government is also boosting the universal child care benefit — $160 a month for kids under six, up from $100, plus a new monthly benefit of $60 for children aged six through 17, effective in 2015.

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The series of tax relief measures will only benefit parents and families with children under age 18, no doubt leaving many Canadians without children, or parents with adult children, wondering where the tax breaks are for them.

Our goal has always been to make sure that Canada is the best country in the world in which to raise a family

“Our goal has always been to make sure that Canada is the best country in the world in which to raise a family,” Harper told a campaign-style event in Vaughan, Ont. “Our government is utterly convinced of one thing: when it comes to the cost of raising a family, Canada’s moms and dads deserve all of the help that we can give them.”