Antipoverty Policies and Changing Welfare Concepts in Canada

**The substantial econontic growth after Wor7d War II led to the expectation on the part of many thcct coltk the rising Gross National Product poverty wou7d s fecrdily diminish as a serious problem; this has not proved to DP so.” This is the opening statrm~nt in a. recent governmental review of C’tr7iadkn antiporjerty policies. The comment might we77 Jralle been written about postwar expectationz concerning poverty in the United States. Thus. the Pxamination of the Canadian polickr, the gove~rnnlrnt programs undertaken to implement thelll. und the influence that changing we7fa,se concepts have had on Canada antipoverty sfrafegiea are of considerable interest in the T’nifed States.