Let me offer a comment that reflects how I feel personally about it, and reflects the way I hope our organization looks at it and deals with it from a conceptual perspective.
I come from the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and I guess I'm a naturalized Canadian because I was born before Confederation. I remember the basis on which that Confederation deal was made. I remember a province whose families for many years eked out very sparse livings from the resources they had available. They came to rely on what they lovingly called “the baby bonus”. It was a significant part of the family income, and I think that's abysmal. To me, the child credit is going back to those days.
My daughter is not one who earns a lot. What she needs is child care—a space and appropriate programs for child care. She does not need to rely upon additional income in the form of a baby bonus. That is the biggest conceptual social drawback to the program.