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Social Assistance Rates in the Province of Ontario and British Columbia for Aboriginal Peoples



Social Assistance Rates in the Province of Ontario and British Columbia for Aboriginal Peoples

Introduction

Social assistance is the process of providing set of Benefits and set of facilities which includes subsidized housing, health care, subsidized rates of food, and education. It is provided by the government of Canada so that people requiring it can have a better lifestyle and living conditions for the community consisting of the elderly, the kids, people with disability and the poor.

Canada and Social Assistance

Although Canada is one of the world's most secure and prosperous countries, its aboriginal community makes up to 3 percent in totality of the entire population. This in turn makes up to northern half of the Canada territory. Canada has been termed as the highest in terms of a country investing in the Human Development index according to the United Nations. In terms of symbolism, Canada is termed as the HD1 country.

Canada, despite being a secure and prosperous country relies heavily on United States of America, in terms of industries and raw materials in terms of exports. Canada is said to be a country that is linked in terms of existence to the extractive frontier. It is a country that has a lower population density and has natural resources which has a higher density. There are many natural resources that have been untapped.

Being an extractive frontier, has its disadvantages in terms of social as well as legal discrimination. The social along with legal discrimination has been against the aboriginal people residing in the Canada. The Aboriginal people are said to be the minority of Canadian population and neither have the rights nor the autonomy to demand value for their life. Based on the history, Canada was segmented in terms of population where one end was enriched with all the facilities to have a better living condition and a better lifestyle where as the other was deprived of such facilities. This scenario negatively conditioned the minds of the aboriginal people. They thought of themselves being isolated, least preferred, discriminated and at the same time having less power. This situation stimulated the need for the social assistance which consists of social and welfare developmental programs.

Thus urged the government to introduce further reforms that could help in eradicating the social and the racial segregation as well as the disintegrations. This also raised issue regarding Canada being rated in HD1 category but not able to completely help its natives and introduce equalizations between all segments in the Canadian society (www.communitylegalcentre.ca).

Structure and Distribution of Aboriginal population

The size of the Aboriginal population and its increment has become a political dispute

According to a research, there are around 100,000 Indians in Canada in 1867 and the same number registered in the year 1929. In time of pre-colonial, it was a s high as few millions. The indigenous population has been around nearly 2 percent of the entire population around a century ...