SWRK 1001H Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Unemployment Benefits, Neoliberalism
9 Feb 2017
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Chapter 4: social welfare and globalization (2) from retrenchment to reinvestment: The 1995 identified canadas labour market as a major target of reform. Federal level dramatic reforms altered the unemployment insurance program and the. One of the main criticisms was that it provided overly generous benefits, which offered little incentive for recipients to get back to work. Cap was how the federal government transferred funs to provinces for social welfare programs. They eliminated cap in 1996 and put all transfers for health, post-secondary education and social welfare into one funding arrangement called chst. The shift to chst meant less money to maintain those programs. Under the chst regional government received a lump sum or block fund which they could divide among the social programs in whatever way they wanted. The new trend was towards provincialized social policy and the creation of 13 independent social welfare systems. This shift meant a significant loss of support for disadvantaged canadians.
