From Rights to Needs

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From Rights to Needs is written by Raymond B. Blake and published by UBC Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0774815744 (ISBN 10) and 9780774815741 (ISBN 13).

This book explores the family allowance phenomenon from the idea's debut in the House of Commons in 1929 to the program's demise as a universal program under the Mulroney government in 1992. Although successive federal governments remained committed to its underlying principle of universality, party politics, bureaucracy, federal-provincial wrangling, and the shifting priorities of citizens eroded the rights-based approach to social security and replaced it with one based on need. In tracing the evolution of one social security program within a national perspective, From Rights to Needs sheds new light on how Canada’s welfare state and social policy has been transformed over the past half century.