What is included with this book?
Acknowledgements | p. viii |
Preface | p. ix |
Health Care in Canada and Our Tragic, Inexcusable Shortage of Doctors | p. 2 |
Poverty in Canada | p. 22 |
Aboriginal Peoples in Canada | p. 36 |
Canadian Social Policy | p. 40 |
Employment and Unemployment in Canada | p. 46 |
Ottawa's UI/EI Cash Cow | p. 51 |
Welfare in Canada | p. 54 |
Immigration and Emigration | p. 63 |
Wages in Canada | p. 72 |
The Distribution of Income in Canada | p. 79 |
The Distribution of Wealth in Canada | p. 84 |
Big-Business Bellyaching and Actual Corporate Profits in Canada | p. 86 |
Big-Business Investment in Canada | p. 90 |
Research and Development | p. 96 |
Productivity in Canada | p. 100 |
Manufacturing in Canada | p. 107 |
Cars, Trucks, and Auto Parts | p. 109 |
Corporate Taxes in Canada | p. 114 |
Personal Taxes | p. 126 |
How Competitive Is Canada? | p. 136 |
Education in Canada | p. 140 |
Culture in Canada | p. 150 |
The Media in Canada | p. 163 |
Foreign Investment, Foreign Ownership, Foreign Control | p. 178 |
Foreign Takeovers | p. 200 |
Canadian Investment Abroad | p. 209 |
The Free Trade Agreement | p. 213 |
NAFTA | p. 221 |
Trade in Goods and Services | p. 233 |
Globalization | p. 242 |
Foreign Aid | p. 250 |
Defence, the Military, the Arms Trade, Peacekeeping, and the Arctic | p. 260 |
Government in Canada | p. 274 |
Decentralization | p. 283 |
Energy Policy in Canada | p. 289 |
Water | p. 307 |
Gross Domestic Product | p. 313 |
Standard of Living and the Quality of Life | p. 315 |
Reforming Our Dysfunctional Electoral System | p. 324 |
Women in Canada | p. 342 |
Conclusion | p. 349 |
Glossary | p. 358 |
Appendices | |
Health Care | p. 364 |
Category Breakdown of Total Health-Care Expenditures in Canada | p. 364 |
Provincial and Territorial Health-Care Spending | p. 365 |
Public and Private Health-Care Costs | p. 365 |
Health Care in the United States | p. 366 |
Some Sample American Surgical Costs in U.S. Dollars | p. 370 |
Poverty | p. 371 |
Measuring Poverty | p. 371 |
Some Notes About Poverty in the United States | p. 372 |
Notes | p. 375 |
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