The Harper government's universal child care plan: Paradoxical or purposeful social policy?

How Ottawa Spends, 2007-2008: The Harper Conservatives - Climate of Change

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 181-199

  Prince, Michael J ^a   Teghtsoonian, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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1. Paul Pierson, Dismantling the Welfare State? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 101. Another counter-example to Pierson's thesis is the proposal advanced by the Trudeau Liberals in 1970 to eliminate the universal Family Allowance and replace it with an income tested family benefit in order to better address the economic challenges facing low income Canadian families. In 1978 the Liberal government did reduce the value of the Family Allowance in order to finance a new refundable child tax benefiConservative Party of Canada, Policy Declaration, adopted at the National Policy Convention, Montreal: March 19, 2005.
2. Ken Battle, Sherri Torjman and Michael Mendelson, More than a Name Change: The Universal Child Care Benefit (Ottawa: Caledon Institute of Social Policy, May 2006), pp. 3-4.
3. Tracey Bushnik, Child Care in Canada (Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 2006).
4. Reginald W. Bibby, Press Release: Child Care Aspirations. Vanier Institute for the Family, 2005. www.vifamily.ca/newsroom/press_feb_10_05.c.html. Accessed November 12, 2006.
5. Katherine Teghtsoonian, "Promises, Promises: 'Choices for Women' in Canadian and American Child Care Policy Debates," Feminist Studies, 1996, 22 (1), 119-46.
6. Dennis Guest, The Emergence of Social Security in Canada (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1985), pp. 15-17, 131, and 264.