Canada's social policy regime and women : Régime de politique sociale du Canada et les femmes, évaluation de la dernière décennie

Specialists in the field anonymously review each paper and provide comments on: • The accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the information presented; • The extent to which the methodology used and the data collected support the analysis and recommendations; • The original contribution the report would make to existing work on this subject, and its usefulness to equality-seeking organizations, [...] Part 4 of this report documents the degendering of policy capacity both within and outside of government and relates this to the invisibilization of women in the reform of the postwar social policy regime. [...] The following highlights the most significant innovations in social policy during the past decade, including the Social Security Review (1994), the Canada Health and Social Transfer (1995), the National Child Benefit (NCB) and related child-centred programs, such as the Multilateral Framework on Early Learning and Childcare (2003), the Social Union Framework Agreement (1999), the Canada Social Tra [...] The CHST also represented the end of the federal govrnment’s previous commitments to Canada’s most vulnerable, including the right to obtain assistance on the basis of need alone and the right to appeal. [...] Moreover, the federal government’s hand in the erosion of the postwar social safety net certainly was not limited to either the creation of the CHST block fund or to the reduction of cash transfers to the provinces.