Canadian Review of Social Policy (CRSP) / Revue canadienne de politique sociale (RCSP)
Not a member yet
687 research outputs found
Sort by
How Laws Regulate Migrant Sex Workers in Canada: To Protect or to Harm?
Full text linkMigrant sex workers in Canada are regulated and affected by a web of laws and policies at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels. This article lays out how these laws and policies, which claim to protect migrant workers, govern and harm their lives. Focusing on the experiences of migrants of Asian descent, this article explores how ill-conceived anti-trafficking laws and enforcement, including sex work-related criminal law, immigration laws that target and prohibit sex work, provincial human trafficking laws, and municipal laws regulating body rub services, conflate sex work with trafficking and further endanger migrant sex workers.Les travailleurs migrants de l’industrie du sexe au Canada sont réglementés et touchés par un agencement de lois et de politiques aux niveaux fédéral, provincial et municipal. Cet article explique comment ces lois et politiques, qui prétendent protéger les travailleurs migrants, régissent et nuisent à leur vie. En se concentrant sur les expériences des migrants d’origine asiatique, cet article explore comment les lois contre la traite des personnes et leur application mal conçues, confondent le travail du sexe avec la traite des personnes et mettent davantage en danger les travailleurs du sexe migrants. En se penchant sur le droit pénal lié au travail du sexe, les lois sur l’immigration qui ciblent et interdisent le travail du sexe, les lois provinciales sur la traite des personnes et les lois municipales réglementant les services de massage corporel
Serving Us Rights: Securing the Right to Food in Canada
Full text linkIn recent decades, Canada has consistently failed to uphold basic human rights, including the right to food. This has caused widespread and persistent household food insecurity (HFI) which has become a serious, albeit overlooked, public health concern. Working from a political economic perspective, this article situates HFI within the context of the poverty resulting from neoliberal “rollbacks” to the welfare state. The majority of community and policy responses to HFI focus on the production or redistribution of food, which misses the underlying issue of inadequate income. These responses may even perpetuate food insecurity by offloading safety net functions onto corporations and communities that cannot compensate for welfare programs. In order to strengthen income-based responses to food insecurity, we recommend policy interventions under the “right to food” framework, which places primary responsibility on the state. But unlike traditionally legal conceptions of the right to food, we emphasize its utility as a tool for mobilizing civil society, which is a powerful yet underutilized source of accountability to state obligations. This approach therefore combines political action with policymaking, and civil society with senior governments, in the collective realization of the right to food
A Curious Case of Negative Policy Diffusion? The Legacy of Quebec’s ‘$5-a-day’ Childcare
Full text linkSince its inception in the fall of 1997, Quebec's "10aDay" campaign) over the quality of care and the centrality of childcare to facilitate equal employment opportunities between women and men. This dynamic was especially prevalent in the coverage of the Baker et al. working paper "Non-Cognitive Deficits and Young Adult Outcomes: The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program" during the 2015 federal election campaign. I argue that the case of Quebec's childcare program challenges extant theoretical perspectives on Canadian federalism and interjurisdictional policy transfer by presenting an anomalous example of 'negative diffusion'
The 1866 Cholera Scare: Implications for Canadian State-Making and Current Pandemic Management
Full text linkThe cholera scare of 1866 had significant implications for Canadian state-making, public health, and notions of social welfare. Shared action by policymakers, police, and public health authorities led to an unprecedented prevention campaign that included moralistic and punitive elements. This paper will outline the ways that the 1866 cholera scare served to develop the foundations of power consolidation, social control, and surveillance practices used in Canada today.
Shifting Alliances: The Trajectory of the Chagnon Foundation and Its Relations with the State and Community Sector in Quebec
Full text linkSince the 1960s, the community sector in Quebec has generally been regarded as operating in a dynamic wherein it has only one counterpart, the state. Over the past ten years, however, a third actor has joined the equation: philanthropic foundations. This new dynamic has given rise to formal partnerships between the government and the Lucie and André Chagnon Foundation. These partnership agreements have rekindled some of the tension surrounding the community sector’s claim to autonomy. Moreover, at a time of fiscal austerity, foundations are also questioning the decline of the welfare state. This article offers a case study of the trajectory of one of Canada's largest foundations, the Chagnon Foundation, in order to highlight the changing relationships and the debates around the respective roles of the state, philanthropic foundations and community organizations
Mutual Aid Parkdale
Full text linkThe commentary includes an introduction to the political values, principles and activities of Mutual Aid Parkdale (M.A.P.) in Toronto, Ontario, during the COVID pandemic, followed by a panel discussion at York University of mutual aid leaders from M.A.P. discussing the history and purpose of mutual aid
Repenser l'itinérance chez les jeunes au Québec : vers un paradigme intersectoriel et intersectionnel de la prévention
Full text linkAfin de lutter contre l’itinérance, différentes mesures politiques ont récemment vu le jour au Québec. L’adoption de plans d’action régionaux, d’avis municipaux et d’une politique nationale témoigne de l’émergence d’une volonté politique de mettre fin à l’itinérance au Québec. Si plusieurs de ces mesures reconnaissent l’importance de la prévention comme stratégie pertinente de lutte à l’itinérance, peu d’efforts sont consacrés à la mise en place d’actions concrètes et concertées pour prévenir l’itinérance, en particulier chez les jeunes. En s’inspirant des travaux de l’Observatoire canadien sur l’itinérance, cet article pose les jalons d’une nouvelle perspective québécoise sur la prévention de l’itinérance chez les jeunes. En tant que chercheur.e.s engagé.e.s dans le champ de l’itinérance, nous présentons ici une réflexion qui soutient l’importance de se dégager d’un paradigme d’intervention centré uniquement sur la logique d’urgence afin d’adopter, plutôt, un paradigme d’intervention centré sur la prévention. Ce changement de paradigme s’appuie sur une perspective intersectorielle et intersectionnelle afin de construire, avec les différents acteurs, une vision globale, cohérente et concertée de la prévention de l’itinérance chez les jeunes au Québec.AbstractSeveral political measures were recently adopted in Quebec to address the issue of homelessness. The introduction of regional action plans, municipal notices and a national policy signals the emergence of a political will to end homelessness in Quebec. However, while the new measures include prevention strategies to combat homelessness, there has been little effort devoted to concrete actions, especially for youth experiencing or at risk of homelessness. This article paves the way for a new perspective on youth homelessness, drawing inspiration from the prevention shift put forward by the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. Our goal, as engaged and committed researchers in the field of homelessness, is to provoke a reflection which we hope will accommodate the emergence of a paradigm shift based on prevention instead of relying on emergency responses. This shift in the fight against this phenomenon among young Quebecers is based on an intersectoral and intersectional model in order to build, with various stakeholders, a global, coherent and concerted vision of the prevention of youth homelessness in Quebec.Keywords: homelessness; youth; preventio
La gouvernance collaborative comme un prisme conceptuel pour comprendre le programme Ville-amie des aînés au Québec : Étude de quatre cas contrastés
Full text linkLa population canadienne est vieillissante et les politiciens, tant sur les scènes fédérale et provinciale que dans les municipalités, cherchent à relever les enjeux qui y sont associés. Depuis 2007, il est apparu dans le paysage des politiques sociales une nouvelle initiative promue par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé : la Ville-amie des aînés. Au Canada, il est possible de retrouver des programmes Ville-amie des aînés dans toutes les provinces. Le Québec compte plus de 900 initiatives ; cela signifie que 90 % des habitants du Québec vivent dans une municipalité qui a entrepris un processus pour devenir « amis des aînés ». Nous examinerons ce programme au Québec à partir des résultats provenant d’une étude qui a été financée par les Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada. À partir d’un devis mixte autour de quatre études de cas contrastés de la région de la Montérégie au Québec, notre article propose d’illustrer le processus de collaboration au sein des Villes-amies des aînés en prenant assise sur le modèle conceptuel d’Ansell et Gash (2008) concernant la gouvernance collaborative. Les résultats de l’étude montrent les différentes catégories conceptuelles du modèle qui s’appliquent aux Villes-amies des aînés : les conditions initiales, le leadership, les règles et les protocoles institués, de même que le processus circulaire de la gouvernance collaborative. Bien que la gouvernance collaborative au sein des Villes-amies des aînés présente plusieurs enjeux, elle devient aussi, à travers le comité de pilotage de ce programme, une opportunité pour les acteurs locaux et régionaux d’agir sur le vieillissement de la population.AbstractCanada’s population is aging and politicians at the federal, provincial and municipal levels are trying to address the associated issues. Since 2007, a new initiative promoted by the World Health Organization has entered the social policy landscape: the Age-friendly City. In Canada, Age-friendly City programs can be found in all the provinces. Quebec has more than 900 initiatives, and 90% of Quebec residents live in a municipality that has begun the process of becoming “age-friendly”. This paper will examine this program in Quebec using the results of a study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Based on a mixed method of four contrasting case studies in Quebec’s Montérégie region, our paper intends to illustrate the main stages (the consultation, action plan and implementation) of the Age-friendly city program in Quebec using Ansell and Gash’s (2008) conceptual model of collaborative governance. The results show how the different conceptual categories apply to Age-friendly Cities: starting conditions, facilitative leadership, institutional design, and cyclical collaborative process. Although several challenges can be associated with collaborative governance in Age-friendly cities, it can also become, through the steering committee for this program, an opportunity for the local and regional actors to address the aging of the population.Keywords: Age-friendly Cities; collaborative governance; case study; agin