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The
Social Union Framework Agreement, or
SUFA, was an agreement made in
Canada in 1999 between
Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien and the premiers of the
provinces and territories of Canada, save Quebec Premier
Lucien Bouchard. It concerns
equal opportunity, social programs,
mobility rights and other rights.
Background
According to Professor Alain Noel, the idea of a Canadian "social union" was a "fairly recent" one at the time of his writing, in 1998. It emerged in the 1990s to describe economic and social policies in Canada. However, Noel notes some politicians and academics believed the social union in Canada was older, having been established at Canadian Confederation or after World War II.Alain Noel, "The Three Social Unions," tr. Geoffrey Hale,
Policy Options 19:9, November 1998, pp. 26-29.
Entrenching a social union into the Constitution of Canada was discussed in 1992 with a package of ultimately rejected amendments called the
Charlottetown Accord. This social union was proposed by the
New Democratic Party of Ontario. The social charter emphasized having common standards of social programs across Canada. Prime Minister Chretien, coming to power in 1993, was not interested in constitutional reform, but became interested in a social union to repair Canadian federalism after the Quebec referendum, 1995 on sovereignty.
The Agreement
The agreement reached in 1999 recognized a number of principles and rights of Canadians, including common quality for social programs across Canada, and
health care in Canada that has "comprehensiveness, universality, portability, public administration and accessibility." The agreement reaffirmed mobility rights for Canadian citizens, and the governments of Canada pledged to establish "no new barriers to mobility" through "new social policy initiatives." The Agreement also stated that "nothing in this agreement abrogates or derogates from any Aboriginal, treaty or other rights of
Aboriginal peoples of Canada including self-government."Government of Canada, Social Union, News Release, " A Framework to Improve the Social Union for Canadians: An Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Governments of the Provinces and Territories, February 4, 1999," URL accessed 20 December 2006.
Under the Agreement, new cross-Canada social programs with federal financial support may also be established with the agreement of the federal government and any six provincial governments. As scholar Jennifer Smith notes, "There is no additional requirement of a population minimum" of the provinces supporting the programs. While theoretically the federal government could easily achieve new programs by appealing to "poorer provinces," particularly in Atlantic Canada, Smith notes that this view "assumes... that the poorer provinces are indiscriminate program takers."Jennifer Smith, "Informal Constitutional Development: Change by Other Means,"
Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy, eds. Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad, Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 50-51.
References
The
Social Union Framework Agreement, or
SUFA, was an agreement made in
Canada in 1999 between Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien and the premiers of the
provinces and territories of Canada, save
Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard. It concerns equal opportunity, social programs, mobility rights and other rights.
Background
According to Professor Alain Noel, the idea of a Canadian "social union" was a "fairly recent" one at the time of his writing, in 1998. It emerged in the 1990s to describe economic and social policies in Canada. However, Noel notes some politicians and academics believed the social union in Canada was older, having been established at Canadian Confederation or after
World War II.Alain Noel, "The Three Social Unions," tr. Geoffrey Hale,
Policy Options 19:9, November 1998, pp. 26-29.
Entrenching a social union into the
Constitution of Canada was discussed in 1992 with a package of ultimately rejected amendments called the
Charlottetown Accord. This social union was proposed by the New Democratic Party of Ontario. The social charter emphasized having common standards of social programs across Canada. Prime Minister Chretien, coming to power in 1993, was not interested in constitutional reform, but became interested in a social union to repair
Canadian federalism after the
Quebec referendum, 1995 on sovereignty.
The Agreement
The agreement reached in 1999 recognized a number of principles and rights of Canadians, including common quality for social programs across Canada, and
health care in Canada that has "comprehensiveness, universality, portability, public administration and accessibility." The agreement reaffirmed mobility rights for Canadian citizens, and the governments of Canada pledged to establish "no new barriers to mobility" through "new social policy initiatives." The Agreement also stated that "nothing in this agreement abrogates or derogates from any Aboriginal, treaty or other rights of
Aboriginal peoples of Canada including self-government."Government of Canada, Social Union, News Release, " A Framework to Improve the Social Union for Canadians: An Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Governments of the Provinces and Territories, February 4, 1999," URL accessed 20 December 2006.
Under the Agreement, new cross-Canada social programs with federal financial support may also be established with the agreement of the federal government and any six provincial governments. As scholar Jennifer Smith notes, "There is no additional requirement of a population minimum" of the provinces supporting the programs. While theoretically the federal government could easily achieve new programs by appealing to "poorer provinces," particularly in
Atlantic Canada, Smith notes that this view "assumes... that the poorer provinces are indiscriminate program takers."Jennifer Smith, "Informal Constitutional Development: Change by Other Means,"
Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy, eds. Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad, Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 50-51.
References
