Combating Poverty : Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State EPUB

by Axel van den Berg, Charles Plante, Hicham Raiq, Christine Proulx, Sam Faustmann

Part of the Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy series

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Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades. While Canada is routinely classified as a single, homogeneous 'liberal market' regime, social and labour market policy falls within provincial jurisdiction resulting in a considerable divergence in policy mixes and outcomes between provinces.

This volume offers a detailed survey of social and labour market policies since the early 2000s in Canadaâ€™s four largest provinces â€“ Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta â€“ showing the full extent to which Canadaâ€™s major provinces have chosen diverging policy paths. Quebec has succeeded in emulating European and even Nordic social democratic levels of poverty for some groups, while poverty rates and patterns in the other provinces remain close to the high levels characteristic of the North American liberal, market-oriented regime. Combating Poverty provides a unique and timely reflection on the political implications and sustainability of Canadaâ€™s fragmented welfare state.