POLI 2P99 Lecture Notes - Canada Health Act, Progressive Tax, Human Resource Management
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Slide 1: the fundamental question (or debate), however, is whether social assistance in canada creates the tendency to institutionalize dependence, or whether it helps canadians recover from temporal hardships and stir beneficiaries towards more self-reliance. Canada"s progressive taxation system is meant to correct for income disparity along class lines. But is it really progressive? (not the ongoing debate over canada"s most recent reduction in corporate taxes even as the nation"s deficit and debater continue to grow) Slide 3: redistribution along regional lines has several components: equalization payments, income transfer to residents in poorer regions, industrial assistance programs. Slide 4 : conclusion several considerations about the future of social policy in canada. Global economic integration and its impact on social policy: the growling race to the bottom over the past 2 decades. Slide 5: the north american free trade agreement (nafta) and the dismantling of what americans consider unfair industrial practices in canada.