POLSCI 4CA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Insurance, Old Age Security, Constitution Act, 1867
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Week 4 - redefining canada after the war. Competition of ideas that set the framework. Economic fluctuations due to cycles of real economy or wage/price pressure. Believe unemployment can be reduced through fiscal adjustment. Economic fluctuations due to changes in the rate of growth of money supply. Believe the jobless are not the responsibility of the stat. Used the concept of social minimum to describe the objectives of social security. Social assistance: secondary and exceptional lines of defence. It is finally necessary to recognize the essential unities of social security - to fit. Pushed for comprehensiveness in design (ignored): together in such a way that they support each other, and work together as a coherent administration There is abundant evidence to show the obstacles which will be left on the path of progress if a piecemeal approach is adopted. In a federal state the warning is all the more necessary. Contributory unemployment insurance (ui) (1940) federal.