Political, Administrative, Economic and Social Policies of the Welfare State of Canada

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The aim of this essay is to discuss the political, administrative, economic and social
policies of the welfare state of Canada. In discussing the welfare nature whether extended or
reduced it can be stated that the welfare state like Canada remains always responsible to promote
and protect economic and social wellbeing of the citizens. However, the state does not allow
people to choose their way to spend their own income. the surveillance on the income of a person
is continued. Privatization can be applied but in some limited aspects so that the welfare nature
doe not get hampered. The less developed countries can get help from this type of developed
democracy like Canada by following its policies. The taxation, fiscal system, management of
natural resources are well maintained. This essay will be detailing whether the democratic
country like Canada as welfare state should be expanded or reduced, the definition of
privatization whether the government services must be handed to the private companies, the
developed democracies must help less developed countries, natural Resources in Canada takes
care of the natural resources, the fiscal and taxation policies of Canada and whether the global
governance support or challenge democratic political life of Canada.
Thesis statement: Canada takes care of the people providing provisions for their good life but
faces tremendous pressure both internally and externally to maintain its positive and welfare
status.
There are numerous criticisms regarding the fact that Canada as welfare state should be
expanded or reduced. In this aspect the advantages and disadvantages of welfare state need to be
discussed. The welfare state like Canada remains always responsible to promote and protect
economic and social wellbeing of the citizens. This aims to provide equal opportunities for each
of its citizens and equal wealth distribution among them. The state is also responsible to take
care of the people who are incapable to avail minimum provisions for their good life. Canada as

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a welfare state involves into the actions like transferring the funds from state to services like
education as well as health care. This country follows the ideologies of social democracy which
is based on the principles of universalism. This particular ideology grants the access to services y
the government as well as advantages based on the citizenship. Based on these views, the
government of this country provides social benefits to the minorities. Due to these reasons the
scholars praise this type of social and political structure in all over the world so that the issues of
economy, society and culture remain balanced.
On the contrary some of the critics like Rod et al. (2015) state that this type of system is
not perfect for the all-inclusive growth of the people living in that country hence must be
reduced. For the reason they have found out that Canada though provide autonomy to its citizens
but limits their reliance on the families or market. Hence all these government policies are
against the market and economic growth. The state does not allow people to choose their way to
spend their own income and the surveillance on the income of a person is continued. The welfare
state imposes high rate of taxes to the higher income group to collect fund for their services. The
people of welfare states cannot use the natural resources in accordance with their own value. In
addition to this, the government intrudes in the personal lives of the people and manipulate their
decision-making process (Hodge 2018). However, despite these issues, the welfare state is
highly popular among the citizens as the benefits are more compelling than those of the
disadvantages.
Privatization is the method of transferring of the government assets, functions and
services to the private associations. This also refers to the deregulation of the government actions
where the heavily regulated private industries become less regulated. This involves the removal
of restrictions that were previously preventing the private individuals as well as businesses from

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participating in some particular industry or services. Through privatization, the control of the
government either loses or eliminated in the series and the private companies take care of those
responsibilities from where they continue their profit mechanism.
Regarding the issue that whether the government services must be handed to the private
companies to save them is mandatory or not, there are regents among the experts. The critic like
Hodge (2018) government services must be handed to the private companies, as this may lead to
have improved efficiency as well as profits from these services. As the private companies run
largely by the competition incentives, therefore, there are chances for innovation as well as
improvement. The private companies ensure that they must improve their operation efficiency
for reducing their costs as well as improve their profits. To the critics like Denhardt and
Denhardt (2015) the privatization method of the government assets reduces the political
interference. The government when find to difficult to make decagons like the layoffs and pay
cuts as these facts their political footing, transfer their responsibilities to the private companies to
avoid negative publicity. The efficacy of the services or institution increases as these do not get
the protection from the government anymore hence work more effectively to survive in the
competition (Montagnes and Bektemirov 2018).
On the contrary, the critics like Abramovitz and Zelnick (2015), reveal that the
privatization affect the citizen in a far-reaching way. Though this method, the government loses
dividends which affect the asset building of the state. Moreover, the privatization of some very
important state entities like electricity and water authorities, create single monopolies but after
privatization of such entities leads to increase of the prices at the detriment of the customers
limitlessly. In addition to these, the government can no more use the companies for the social
welfare as they companies are regularized. This means the government cannot ask the companies