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Canada's Social Welfare Reform
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Canada's extensive social welfare net is experiencing financial problems. Because of an aging population, increasing costs of medical care, and a very liberal unemployment policy coupled with persistent unemployment and increasing national deficits, Canadians are reassessing their social welfare programs.
Early 1994, the Minister of Human Resources Development created a Standing Committee on Human Resources Development. The Committee's mandate is to define issues, concerns, and priorities; and to develop an action plan for a general reform affecting all aspects of social welfare, including applicable taxes and laws relating to education, labor, and private pensions. All forms of …
