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CAP + EPF Transfers |
CHST |
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Amount of Transfer |
1996-97: $29.4 billion
1997-98: $29.6 billion
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* 1996-97: $26.9 billion
(i.e. 2.5 billion - an 8.5 percent reduction)
* 1997-98: $25.1 billion
(i.e., 4.5 billion - a 15.2 percent reduction)
* cash portion will fall from $16.3 billion in 1995-96 to $10.3 billion in 1997-98
and disappear by 2009-10 (estimate)
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Condition of Transfer |
Specific amounts designated for health care; postsecondary education; welfare
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No designation (i.e., lump funding); no guarantee
that provinces will spend on welfare or social services
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National Standards |
Exist for medicare but not for welfare/social services
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Exist for medicare but not for welfare/social services
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Federal government's capacity for enforcing national standards |
Leverage by federal government's ability to withhold funding when existing standards not met
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The more cash transfers decline, the less leverage the federal government has to enforce them
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