Implementing multicultural policy: an analysis of the heritage language program, 1971-1981

Article Abstract:

During the past twenty years governments in Canada have become concerned with multicultural issues because of increased immigration from non-English and non-French speaking countries. One expression of this concern dealt with the retention of ethnic languages (referred to by policy-makers as heritage languages) by new Canadians, which culminated in the Secretary of State heritage language program. However, the preponderance of previous research shows a trend to increasing linguistic assimilation to English or French. Thus the paper will attempt to confirm or invalidate past research by using more recent census data and separating it into national and provincial components based upon mother tongue and language most frequently used in the home. This latter question was first asked in the 1971 census. Thus it is now possible to compare the linguistic situation in 1971 with the 1981 census data to determine significant changes over the ten-year period and the effect of government policy. Prior to 1971 such comparisons based on census data were not possible. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Language policy

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Sending mixed messages: gender-based analysis and the "status of women."(Gender and Public Administration)

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Unveiled in 1996 as one of the key components of the federal Liberal government's wider strategy to promote women's equality, outlined in 'Setting the Stage for the Next Century: The Federal Plan for Gender Equality,' gender-based analysis was devised to facilitate the development and assessment of policies from a gender perspective. While acknowledging that weaving gender into the policy process is a beginning, this paper examines the limitations of gender-based analysis and argues that given the intermingling of women's equality goals with gender equality, the Federal Plan and gender-based analysis are sending mixed messages to policy developers about how to incorporate into policy-development measures that attend to women's specific social and economic realities. These mixed messages derive from the narrowness and conceptual constraints of the term gender and are exacerbated by the limited organizational capacity of Status of Women Canada to effectively lead and coordinate substantive gender analysis. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs), Public Services Administration, Management, Women, Prevention, Civil service, Sex discrimination, Equality, Women in the civil service

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Reducing spending and increasing equity: how far can refundable tax credits take us?

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The social security review now underway is intended to restructure Canada's social safety net. The principle of universality is likely to be replaced by income-conditioned transfers with improved work incentives. At the same time, the notion of a refundable tax credit lurks in the background, a legacy of the first social security review held in the 1970s. Our paper examines the rationale behind the income-testing principle, the structure of refundable tax credit plans and their relationship to income inequality in Canada. More specifically, a number of differently configured refundable tax credit options are simulated using Canadian household micro-data to evaluate the budgetary costs, the implied average tax rate required to finance the program and the resulting degree of inequality. We demonstrate the possibility of cutting government spending while simultaneously reducing income inequality in Canada. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Social security, Tax refunds, Tax credits

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