With all his talk of “incremental change”, who knew Harper meant change, as in a few loonies.

[Harper] was in Nepean, outside Ottawa, announcing a plan to index the Universal Child Care Benefit payout to inflation, meaning it would rise each year to match increases in the prices of key goods in the economy.

The plan would only add an estimate two or three dollars to the $100 monthly cheque that Canadian parents of children under six currently receive.