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The Public Health Agency of Canada has credited Quebec's universal and affordable child care program as a poverty reduction tool. From the Public Health Agency of Canada:

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/2008/cphorsphc-respcacsp/cphorsphc-respcacsp07b-eng.php

Focus on Poverty - Quebec's Family Policy

Quebec’s Family Policy was put in place in 1997. It includes an integrated child allowance, enhanced maternity and parental leave, extended benefits for self-employed women, and subsidized early childhood education and child care services. Through this policy, the province has been able to establish a network of child care centres for children aged four years and younger from existing non-profit daycare centres and home agencies. The centres offer low-cost care and are no cost for parents on social assistance. Elementary schools in the public system also provide low-cost before- and after-school care and full-day kindergarten is provided to all five-year-olds.^{220, 221} In addition, some school boards offer full-day kindergarten to four-year-olds from low-income families. Since 1997, Quebec’s steady decline in poverty rates has resulted in the greatest overall decrease among provinces resulting in a 2005 child poverty rate lower than the national average.²¹³ While much of this decline is due to economic growth, government policies are also believed to have contributed to lower poverty rates.²¹⁷