Phases Of Social Welfare State

Question 1

Phases, Name, and Time period

Answer 1

Phase 1- The colonial period 1600-1867

Phase 2- The industrial period 1866-1940

Phase 3- The welfare State 1941-1974

Phase 4- The rise of neo liberalism 1975-2005

Phase 5- retrenchment and discovery 2006- present.

Phase 6- COVID TIMES

Question 2

Phase 1- Colonial Period(1600-1867)

Answer 2

• Feudalism
• wage labour
• Elizabethan poor law 1601
• deserving, underserving poor
• industrial revolution
• Arrival New France, English Colonies
• BNA 1867
• Work house
• House of industry

Question 3

Phase 2- Industrial Period(1886-1940)

Answer 3

• Worker compensation
• Mothers Allowance and Pensions
• Women and Right to vote
  -Income security for the elderly
• 1929 Crash
• On to Ottawa Treck
• Employment and Social Insurance act 1935

Question 4

Phase 3- The welfare state(1941-1974)

Answer 4

• WWII followed warfare star
• Growth of Canadian government as employer
• CPP/QPP
• Family Allowance act 1941(replaced by child tax benefit 1989 means test)
• old age pensions
• Canadian Assistance plan
• Canadian Medicare Act

Question 5

Phase 4- Rise of Neo Liberalism(1975-2005)

Answer 5

• Postwar economic boom slowing down
• Conservative thinking, misspending at fault.
• Corporate Canada lower taxes, less government intervention.
• Mulroney years
• Free Trade- NAFTA
• Cuts
• Growing inequality

Question 6

Phase 5- Retrenchment and recovery(2006-present)

Answer 6

• Conservative government of Stephen Harper.
• Indiginous Polices
• Pension reform
• Employment Insurance
• Immigration Policy
• Environmental Programs
• Justin Trudeau’s Government

Question 7

Phase 6- COVID Times

Answer 7

• Pandemic
• Expanding Social Welfare
• Health, Economic, Social Crisis
• Black Lives Matter
• Precious Lives Remembered