As a francophone born and living in Quebec, and as a scholar very familiar with the process of the federal government's disengagement from social programs over three decades, I feel confident to affirm that this report's main potential contribution is not to reducing poverty. Its contribution will be as an output of the extensive federal propaganda machinery. This report central message is: Let's blame the provinces (Quebec in particular), their attitudes and lack of commitment to reduce poverty. Let's do that instead of making the federal government accountable for the difficulties induced by cuts and erosion of social transfers over the years and its dramatic reforms of the mid-1990s, which resulted in abolishing the principles of our national social welfare institution (the Canada Assistance Plan)among other initiatives. If we hold provinces and their bad attitudes responsible for poverty outcomes in Canada, we can claim that a stronger, more authoritative central government is the solution to poverty in Canada. Sorry, I cannot agree with this. Yes, poverty is a very political issue. I am sorry that such propaganda circulates through this list under the cover of reducing poverty and inequality.
Nicole F. Bernier, PhD
Politologue / Political Scientist
Chercheure adjointe, Boursière FCRSS/IRSC
Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire en santé
Université de Montréal
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Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7
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De : Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]] De la part de Dennis Raphael
Envoyé : 16 septembre 2005 14:41
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Objet : [SDOH] Divided and distracted: Regionalism as obstacle to reducing poverty and Inequality
Divided and distracted: Regionalism as obstacle to reducing poverty and Inequality
AU: Yalnizyan, Armine
SOURCE: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives [CA]
Report says federal reinvestments in social programs have failed to relieve poverty in Canada due to no national unity of purpose. http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=81606
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