Sentences with phrase «social transfers»

The Minister of Finance announced yesterday that, while the Canada Health Transfer and Equalization will be tied to nominal economic growth (projected to be about 4 % annually), the Canada Social Transfer for post-secondary education and other provincial services will grow at only 3 % annually.

Health services are the single largest social transfer from the federal government to the provinces.

It specifically recommend earmarking funds in the Canada social transfer for civil legal aid in order to ensure that women have access to family justice with a particular emphasis on victims of violence, indigenous women, and women with disabilities.

This improvement is ascribed almost entirely to the enormous increase in social transfers in the past 10 years.

The Institute proposes cuts to the Canada Health Transfer and the Canada Social Transfer of $ 3.1 billion in 2011 - 12 and $ 6.2 billion thereafter.

It is interesting to note that the March 2011 Budget stated that the transfers to provinces for the Canada Health Transfer and the Canada Social Transfer post 2013 - 14 are subject to change.

Civil society organizations urge Canada to immediately increase the Canada Social Transfer amount to provinces and territories, earmark sufficient funds specifically for social assistance, with conditions to assure accountability for rights obligations, ensure that Canada's national housing strategy use a rights and gender - based approach, and increase inadequate access to education for Indigenous women.

Social hardship in the South will not end unless the creditor states agree on a sizable transfer of resources to debtor states through a kind of Eurobonds and social transfers from the EU budget.

The provinces receive close to $ 40 billion from the federal government under the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) and the Canada Social Transfer (CST) programs.

Up until the March 2012 Budget the Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer were combined under «Federal transfers in support of health and other programs», whereas the Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer are shown separately in the Fiscal Monitor and the Public Accounts of Canada.

This would give premiers the surplus tax room they need to raise extra revenue on their own to replace federal health and social transfers, the group says.

«The Illusion of Equality: Provincial Distribution of the Canada Health and Social Transfer,» C.D. Howe Institute Commentary 80, by Kenneth J. Boessenkool (June).

He was silent on what would happen to the Canada Social Transfer.

The biggest issue on the spending side is what to do about health and social transfers to the provinces.

First there are statutory programs, such as for elderly benefits, the Canada Health Transfer, the Canada Social Transfer, Equalization, public debt charges, among others.

This funding was delivered first through the Canada Health and Social Transfer, and then the Canada Social Transfer (after the federal government moved to split the CHST into two separate funds in 2004 — the Canada Health Transfer and the Canada Social Transfer).

Federal employment minister says he's raising questions with the provinces about how they're spending the Canada social transfer

It also demonstrates that the present debate on unequal youth trajectories and the negative configurations of the transitions to adulthood among the poorest, can not be separated from a debate regarding Uruguay's distribution of welfare benefits, social transfers and social expenditure among different age groups.

By removing civil legal aid funding from the Canada Social Transfer and funding it separately (as is done with criminal legal aid), the federal government can ensure that the provinces spend the funding on civil legal aid rather than on other priorities.

Ottawa first backed civil legal aid through the Canada Assistance Plan, and now does so through the Canada Social Transfer.