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Canada Assistance Plan, 1966
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CAP was the basis for cost sharing of a range of services and
programs including: health services, children services, social
assistance, disability allowances, old age assistance, services
for the elderly, and institutional care. The program broke with
traditional ideas of welfare in two ways. First, it was the first
time that assistance could be granted to the working poor. CAP was
designed to allow assistance to people where income from work was
inadequate to meet basic needs. This aspect of the CAP was never
implemented to any appreciable extent. Second, CAP made it mandatory
for every province to have established appeals procedures for clients.
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