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Welfare Practices and Civil Liberties

Publisher:  Canadian Civil Liverties Education Trust, Toronto, Canada
Year Published:  1976  
Price:  $2.50  
Resource Type:  Article

Report, based on 2-year survey of welfare recipients and administrators, identifies a number of serious problems.

Abstract:  This publication is based on a two-year survey of a thousand welfare recipients and a score of welfare administrators across Canada (Halifax, Fredericton, Toronto, Hamilton, Regina, etc.). It identifies a number of serious problems. Deserted wives complained that in order to get welfare they were being forced against their own will to sue their husbands, in some cases shattering completely any hope of restoring their broken families. Other recipients complained that the welfare authorities were conducting surveillance into their intimate cohabitation arrangements. Homes were visited without advance appointments and inspections were conducted without asking permission. The publication precipitated a wave of headline news stories, radio and television appearances.

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