For over 30 years, Campaign 2000 has been tracking government progress to meet their all-party, unanimous objective to end child poverty by the year 2000. Each year, our child and family report cards call for urgent action, bold policies and appropriate investments that work together to end poverty, inequity and systemic discrimination. Never before have these inequities been so apparent and the need to close gaps so dire. Before the pandemic ensued, more than 1.3 million children lived in poverty. That is nearly 1 in 5 children in families experiencing the harsh long-term consequences that poverty and discrimination have on social, mental and physical health and well-being, despite Canada’s enormous and growing wealth. First Nations, Inuit, Métis, racialized, immigrant children, children with disabilities and children in female led lone parent families are all overrepresented in rates of poverty, while income and wealth continues to concentrate at the top. Using the latest income data available, this report reveals some troubling trends prior to the pandemic. The national child poverty rate declined by less than half a percentage point between 2017-2018. Child poverty rates grew in several provinces and territories, including Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Manitoba, and remained relatively unchanged in Alberta, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan. The rates declined modestly in Quebec, British Columbia, Ontario, Yukon and Northwest Territories. Examining the role of the Canada Child Benefit, we find that it had an important impact in the year it was first introduced, but the deteriorating effect on child poverty rates suggests that this impact was front-ended and short-lived.