The Pros And Cons Of Social Welfare Programs

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The debate topic today posed the question of whether or not the social welfare programs in effect today adequately meet the needs of Canadians. The con-side argued that there are too many issues within these programs to adequately meet every citizen’s needs. The first issue is the marginalization of these program’s requirements in order to obtain them making them inaccessible to many. Although this may be true, it discards the fact that in order to be efficient and include as many “needy” people as possible, there must be requirements/criteria that people meet to use these programs. In addition, the requirements necessary to use these programs are dependent on the majority of the people who need them. For example, if the majority of people