Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act

Marginal note:Purposes

• 24.3 (1) Subject to this Part, a Canada Social Transfer in the amounts referred to in subsection 24.4(1) is to be provided to the provinces for the purposes of

  • (a) financing social programs in a manner that provides provincial flexibility;

  • (b) maintaining the national standard, set out in section 25.1, that no period of minimum residency be required or allowed with respect to social assistance; and

  • (c) promoting any shared principles and objectives, including public reporting, that are developed under subsection (2) with respect to the operation of social programs.

• Marginal note:Discussion with provinces

  (2) The Minister of Social Development shall invite representatives of all the provinces to consult and work together to develop, through mutual consent, a set of shared principles and objectives for social programs that could underlie the Canada Social Transfer.

• Marginal note:Definition of social programs

  (3) In this section, social programs includes programs in respect of post-secondary education, social assistance and social services, including early childhood development, and early learning and child care services.