Federal officials went looking for Canadian daycares to help promote a Liberal government plan to increase the Canada child benefit - but instead found opposition to the idea of touting the benefit as key to defraying the cost of child care.

Anti-poverty groups say child benefits are a powerful tool to help cut poverty rates, but have continually wondered if the CCB's impact on child poverty is as large as Trudeau says.

A year in, has the Canada Child Benefit really yielded the reform, and fairness, the Liberals promised?