May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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She's, works around the area of early childhood education.
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Um-hum.
She showed us an example of how social policy
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with respect to the elderly has changed over --
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Right.
-- you know, last 20 years where we went to have
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a bad record to a fairly low poverty rate for old -- the
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elderly.
Is, is that something that you expect could
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happen with child welfare if the right policies were
implemented? Is that something you've looked at?
A Well, it could happen. I mean, part of the
reason that that's happened with respect to the elderly
have been significant improvements to, you know, pension
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provisions and so on from the national level.
And one of
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the problems we have in, in Canada is that we do not have
enough national leadership on some of these kinds of issues
that would produce quickly that kind of impact in child
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welfare.
follow.
But it is a model to look at and a model to
And, you know, if I can just comment one, one
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step further.
Initially, the Australian initiatives were
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targeted primarily at families with children zero to five
and there was enough success with those efforts that they
extended the range of those programs to target families
with children zero to twelve in, as I say, particularly
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