Sentences with phrase «canadian social safety net»
Employment Insurance or EI flies beneath the political radar much of the time, but remains an important and relevant part of the Canadian social safety net.
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This is not the society that Canadians want, yet successive governments have enabled it by dismantling our social safety net, eroding progressive taxation, and introducing policies that weaken unions and hurt working Canadians.
Canada is far less religious than the US (way more atheists per capita), and yet has fewer abortions per capita, far less gun violence per capita (despite being just as ethnically diverse), is a peacekeeping country, less divorce per capita, has universal health care, more social safety nets, and Canadians are considered much nicer than Americans.
Neither side should switch, because the systems are a function of the population — the Canadian population believes much more in maintaining social safety nets.»
At the moment, says Dufour, Canadians «look behind them and see there's no social safety net, and so they're willing to work for less.»