PO264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Pension, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Unemployment Benefits
Document Summary
After the crisis, many realized that this was a major transformation of the state. The state needs to develop and fund new ears of support like health and pension etc. We saw a number of hardcore liberal governments, this means a major reversal of major developments of welfare state. The welfare state was already an element of the state that benighted middle class people. This period happened not as many people expected to it. The state still spends money and still introduces the programs but the purpose of the programs it to make the society more competitive and save money in the long run. How have these periods played out in the canadian context: early developments, 1927 old age pension age, 135 bennett"s new deal employment and social insurance very ambitious social technique. Parliamentary sovereignty is limited here because the federal government could not unilaterally introduce a social program.
