Deck 6: The Historical Base of Canadian Social Welfare

Question 1

Explain the significance of the English Poor Laws to social welfare generally and to Canada specifically.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

Find a website about John Joseph Kelso and write a biographical profile of this humanitarian, noting at least three different areas in which he contributed to social welfare.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Summarize the significance of the Rowell-Sirois Commission.

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

There were several social protests in Canada in the 1900s; identify the significance of the Winnipeg Strike and the Regina Riot.

Question 5

Find three recent newspaper articles and one website for (a) child poverty, (b) homelessness, (c) immigration and (d) health, and summarize the key issues identified provincially, territorially and federally.

Question 6

Summarize the main findings of the Marsh report. How is this relevant for the present state of social welfare?

Question 7

Identify two positive and two negative aspects of the feudal system.

Question 8

Where did the principle of less eligibility originate? Explain its meaning.

Question 9

Explain the principle of need and the two ways of considering need.

Question 10

What is laissez-faire and how does it differ from humanitarianism?

Question 11

What was the Regina Riot of July 1st, 1935 concerned with?

Question 12

What did Bill C-69 (1991) accomplish in relation to the Canada Assistance Plan?

Question 13

What three problems did the Task Force on Homelessness identify?

Question 14

Identify three priorities for health-related issues.

Question 15

What is the significance of the 1998 and 1999 federal budgets?

Question 16

What is the significance of Bill C-6 (2004), the Act Respecting Assisted Human Reproduction and Related Research?

Question 17

The principle of less eligibility can be traced to

A) The Rowell-Sirois Commission
B) The Royal Commission for Inquiring into the Administration and Practical Operations of the Poor Laws
C) The Marsh Report
D) The Atlantic Charter
E) The Canada Assistance Plan

Question 18

In 1893 An Act for the Prevention of and Cruelty to and Better Protection of Children was passed to encourage the founding of additional children's aid societies in Ontario due largely to the work of

A) Leonard Marsh
B) Benjamin Disraeli
C) R B Bennett
D) J J Kelso
E) None of the above

Question 19

The Statute of Labourers

A) Required able-bodied labourers to accept employment from any masters willing to hire them
B) Was an outcome of the Regina Riots
C) Prohibited citizens from giving alms to able-bodied beggars
D) A and B above
E) A and C above

Question 20

Parliament passed at least eight major pieces of social legislation in the 1950s and 1960s. The most significant was

A) The CHST act
B) The Family Allowances Act
C) The Canada Assistance Plan (CAP)
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above

Question 21

By 1992, child poverty in Canada was a major concern because

A) 1 in 15 children lived in poverty
B) 1 in 10 children lived in poverty
C) 1 in 20 children lived in poverty
D) 1 in 5 children lived in poverty
E) 1 in 3 children lived in poverty

Question 22

Laissez-faire

A) Was developed by Adam Smith
B) States that individuals pursuing their own good work toward achieving the good of all
C) Suggests that interference in business by government would be harmful
D) Was published in Wealth of Nations (1766)
E) All of the above

Question 23

The first Children's Aid Society in Toronto (1891) was developed by this journalist, who became Ontario's first superintendent of neglected and dependent children:

A) J J Kelso
B) R B Bennett
C) William Lyon Mackenzie King
D) Marguerite Bourgeoys
E) Mary Richmond

Question 24

By 1933 the effects of the Depression had intensified such that

A) Fifteen to twenty percent of the population was dependent on municipal social assistance
B) Local municipalities were going bankrupt under the strain of their social assistance needs
C) Twenty-five percent of the normal male working force was unemployed
D) Most young men had not found their first jobs after leaving school
E) All of the above

Question 25

The Marsh Report

A) Was a lengthy and complicated document
B) Described universal risks
C) Proposed a system of social insurance and taxation to pay for the proposed plan
D) Stated that society must provide for those needs that individuals cannot fill
E) All of the above

Question 26

In 1933, the effects of the Depression had lessened and fewer than 10% of the population depended on municipal social assistance.

Question 27

The practice of relegating those in need to a second-class existence strongly influenced the development of social welfare in Britain, the United States and Canada.

Question 28

Atlantic Canada felt strongly about the British philosophy of less eligibility, and both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick operated according to the English Poor Laws.

Question 29

The British North America Act (1867) assigned welfare provisions to the federal government.

Question 30

During the 1970s the emphasis in social welfare shifted from developing new social welfare programs to an evaluation and reorganization of programs already established.

Question 31

CAP was the largest single source of funding for social services in Canada, accounting for an average of 38.5% of provincial spending.

Question 32

The CHST gave the provinces less power in deciding the redistribution of funding to health, post-secondary education and social assistance and services.

Question 33

The voluntary sector employs more than one million workers and six and a half million volunteers.

Question 34

In 1999 the Canadian Child Tax Benefit (CCTB) reduced federal support to families.

Question 35

There is evidence of the development of a national perspective on safe, affordable housing.