What Does the Government of Canada Use the Low-Income Measure

What does the Government of Canada use the low-income measure (LIM) for?

A) to calculate the number of low-income families in Canada
B) to estimate the costs of basic necessities and how those costs compare to people's disposable income
C) to determine at which point a family spends a disproportionate amount of its income on basic necessities
D) to estimate the proportion of a geographic area that has much less income than the rest of the area