Sentences with phrase «provincial social programs»
It's a clever and cynical way to reduce our provincial social programs but have the provinces bear the blame.
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What is the government's real commitment to provincial transfers for health and social programs?
While federal and provincial governments will continue to play an important role investing in infrastructure, they simply do not have the resources to meet the demand — pegged at somewhere in the neighbourhood of $ 500 - billion — without a large increase in tax revenues or drastic cuts to social programs.
In the mid-1990s, Quebec claimed that the federal government's parental and maternity leave programs were unconstitutional and that the federal government could not use EI to fund social programs that are supposed to fall under provincial jurisdiction.
In the challenge, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations argue the federal government, which is responsible for funding social programs on reserves, is discriminating by spending 22 per cent less on child - welfare services than provincial governments provide for children who live off reserves.