ya, we may have better health care but it is flawed as the waiting lists are long. We pay $88 per month in order to have Provincial Coverage. So it isn't really free.
We get $100 per month for every child under the age of 6 and then depending on how much you make you get money for each kid under the age of 18. If you make little enough they give you another $1000.00 a year to help with child care costs.
I live in Alberta so our taxes are the lowest in Canada thanks to the oil, but still, our education system sucks as there isn't enough money to build schools where needed and the school fees are high. This year for one child I paid $230.00 for lunchroom supervision, not food just supervision, then another $90.00 for school fees and field trips. If I wanted him to get milk it would have been another $110.00. He's only in grade 2, I hear it's worse once they hit grade 6. September gets very expensive for us.
