a national child benefit provides supplementary income for eligible lowincome families in all provinces and territories except in quebec where access is higher and eligible lowincome families have free access to regulated ecec a national universal child care benefit program issues a taxable monthly payment to families for each child under the age of six to help cover the cost of child care public primary and secondary education is provided free of charge to students who meet age and residence requirements and some provinces and territories have extended the length of compulsory education from age to age