Canadian Social Welfare Policy : Federal and Provincial Dimensions

Seven experts, representing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, discuss specific reform efforts in a number of social welfare policy areas and identify the jurisdictional fremework of policy-making in Canada's federal system as a factor of significantly affects these efforts. CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION CONTRIBUTORS 1. Federalism, Social Policy, and the Constitution 2. Income Security: The Rise and Stall of the Federal Role 3. Social Security Reform during the 1970s 4. Institutional Conservatism: Federalism and Pension Reform 5. Revision and Retreat: Canadian Unemployment Insurance, 1971–1981 6. Restructuring Family Allowances: "Good Politics at No Cost"? 7. The Working Poor, the Canada Assistance Plan, and Provincial Response in Income Supplementation 8. Trends in Provincial Social Service Department Expenditures, 1963–1982 9. Social Welfare Development in Alberta: The Federal-Provincial Interplay