Canadian Social Policy Renewal, 1994-2000 Book

Acknowledgements     5
Foreword   Robert Stirling     6
The Social Policy Environment     12
Poverty and Relief     13
Industrialization, War and Social Policy     15
Modern Canadian Social Policy     19
The Social Security Review Initiative     25
The Federal Agenda     25
The Social Security Review Process     26
Federal-Provincial Relations     30
The Social Security Review Discussion Paper     33
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development     38
Collapse of the Social Security Reform Initiative     40
The 1995 Budget and the Council on Social Policy Reform and Renewal     42
The Policy Environment     42
The 1995 Federal Budget     45
1995 Annual Premiers Conference     50
Saskatchewan Position at the Premiers' Conference     53
1995 Western Premiers' Conference     54
Ministerial Council on Social Policy Reform and Renewal     54
Ministerial Council Report to Premiers     56
Reflections     60
Francie Harle     60
Doug Smith     63
Process and Structure for Social Policy Renewal     66
The Quebec Sovereignty Referendum     66
The 1996 Federal Throne Speech and Budget     66
Saskatchewan View of the National Agenda     68
1996 Western Premiers' Conference     69
1996 First Ministers' Conference     70
1996 Annual Premiers' Conference     71
Provincial/Territorial Council on Social Policy Renewal     74
Federal/Provincial/Territorial Council on Social Policy Renewal     75
1997 Annual Premiers' Conference     76
First Ministers' Meeting on the Social Union, December 1997     76
National Child Benefit     78
Program Details     78
Development of the Child Benefit Concept     80
Development of the National Child Benefit     85
Reflections     98
Rick August     98
John Stapleton     103
Barbra Senchuk     105
Ken Battle     107
Note     112
National Children's Agenda     113
Development of the National Children's Agenda     113
Reflections     122
Marta Morgan     122
Martha Friendly     125
New Approaches to Canada's Social Union     129
A Framework for the Social Union     129
Note     156
Reflections     157
Joseph Facal     157
Conclusion     163
Domestic Policy     163
Structures and Processes     164
Social Policy and the Social Wage     165
Aboriginal Involvement in Social Policy Renewal     172
International Social Policy     174
Conclusion     179
References     181