  Media Release - Income Support Reform that Makes SenseWelfare pays people not to work, and we should not be surprised that it creates more of what it pays for. Whereas a rational social policy would encourage economic engagement, welfare has encouraged chronic unemployment and economic marginalization. The welfare model is a failure of vision. It has, over the last half-century, consigned hundreds of thousands of Canadians to a life of diminished well-being, low achievement and diminished happiness. |
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 Canada's Welfare System has Failed as a Strategy for Fighting PovertySome claim that governments can reduce poverty by raising social assistance rates. But a study done for the Frontier Centre concluded that a more effective approach is to increase the number of people who can get off welfare and work. Rick August knows the system well. He was a senior manager dealing with social assistance in the public sector for more than 30 years. (~2 min) Join us weekly across the prairies for our hard hitting policy commentary broadcast across the Goldenwest Radio Network - Click here for a list of 14 stations and broadcast times. |
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Latest PublicationsIt’s Time to End Welfare— April 23, 2012Though many claim that governments can reduce poverty by raising welfare rates and making benefits easier to get, the only real poverty reduction in half a century of welfare policy has come about by raising employment rates, not welfare rates. Taming Two Dragons— April 17, 2012This policy paper examines the means and policies by which Canada could help people on welfare without trapping them in a cycle of poverty. Media Release - Income Support Reform that Makes Sense— April 17, 2012Based on a structural and historical analysis of Canada's welfare system, this policy paper argues that welfare has helped create and maintain a chronically workless underclass that persists regardless of economic or labour market conditions instead of helping welfare recipients. The Big Census News— February 16, 2012The 2011 census has revealed that several provinces with varying demographic challenges have had success attracting and retaining immigrants through the provincial immigrant nominee programs introduced in the late 90s, and expanded dramatically in recent years. What’s Wrong With Renting Sheds to Poor?— January 27, 2012The fact that a man in Winnipeg faces charges for renting a shed in his backyard should lead us to question how restrictive housing and renting policies are creating the situation. Honour Killings in Canada: An Undeniable Reality!— January 20, 2012Wherever there is a bubble of ignorance, I am there to burst it. Canada, a lovely country known for its open-hearted acceptance of immigrants from a vast array of foreign lands, is quickly becoming a cesspool in which cultures are clashing. These clashes are usually swept under the rug by the host country (Canada) and those who are integrating (at varying degrees) in to the host country. |
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