Benefiting fishermen: Origins of fisherman's unemployment insurance in Canada, 1935-1957

From: Journal of Canadian Studies | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

The fishermen's unemployment insurance system in Canada must be one of the most controversial aspects of this most controversial of industries. This paper describes the debates concerning the desirability of extending the unemployment insurance system to fishermen, from the original parliamentary debate on unemployment insurance in 1935, through the enactment of the enabling legislation in 1956, to the implementation of fishermen's unemployment insurance in April 1957. The main question asked, and answered, is why a money transfer system that was opposed by the government agencies that would ...

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