, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds … GDP per capita. Both the consumption and wealth domains experienced solid advances over the period, but these developments …

Income Supplement in 1968 and the reduction in poverty after 1973 to the maturing of the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan regimes … universal medicare. Osberg also finds that relative to the United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom, Canada has done the … best job in boosting the income levels of seniors above the poverty line. In his view, Canada has done a remarkable job in …