I offer a real world example. My wife and I have two small children and would like a third. I work and make reasonable money, she raises the kids (which is WAY more difficult than my job). We are hesitating having the third because we worry that the cost of the third child may jeapardize the well being of the other two. Yes, there will be a government cheque coming in, but they will in no way compensate for the cost of a child. I don't care it it's the $6400 max, it's still not enough to properly raise a child in Canada. My argument is that if my taxes weren't so high; income tax, sales tax, property tax, gas tax etc, we would be easily able to have the third child. We would be building the population and contributing to the economy. Yet, unfortunately, Canada has chosen to import to sustain growth, when I am perfectly capable to do it locally. It saddens me that my taxes prevent me from having a third child but instead go to paying for someone else to immigrate.