The District of Peel region is working in Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon with 1.4 million inhabitants from various nations of the world (Peel Region 2015). The Region of Peel has the administration with the distinctive ethnic society of around 143,000 of the business organizations (Peel Region 2015). Indeed, the Peel region achieves success in training, business, transportation, and more, but this is only the tip of the iceberg because the Peel region faces several social issues. The social problems in the Region of Peel include poverty, affordable housing, immigration, health services, and employment insurance which affects negatively in the region.
The very first social issue in the Peel region is poverty. Poverty affects the individual
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in various routes, for example, poverty drives the lack of healthy sustenance for children of low-income families which result in malnutrition. Poverty has the adverse effect on education because many people cannot afford to go to school, which leads to unemployment and illiterate in society. Due to poverty, people are homeless and unemployed that will force them to commit a crime as a robbery for their survival. Second, a safe and reasonable housing to live is the other social issue in society. From the three primary requirements of human need, housing is one of them. Due to the high cost of house and repair, most people cannot afford a house which forces them to live in the streets and shelters. As per the Peel region, there is a lack of moderate lodging in Peel and made a long run down for financing lodging in Ontario. Due to the high cost and mortgage, individual cannot afford to pay a down payment of the house because of low income which forces them to take a shelter on the streets. Third, the immigration is also a problem because of expanding in the unlawful outsiders. There are lots of people who come to Canada with the illegal means that will make an issue of the society. There is no doubt; the immigration system is helpful in developing the financial level, but it also effect on the jobs of Canadian residents. The various ethnic diversity of other countries migrates to Canada for the better education and money. However, it will impact on employment and education of Canadian residents as more immigrants make a higher accomplishment than inhabitants. Moreover, the immigrants face many problems like education, jobs, housing, and sometimes discrimination to achieve success in Canada. Fourth, the health issue that will affect the community from school immunization, clinics, obesity, sexuality, and more.
OHIP Health card covers most of the health benefits of surgery, medical check-up, and more. However, due to population growth, aging, and long-term care residents will increase the demand for the services of hospitals and long-term care. However, the expensive treatment like dental, eyes and prescribed medicine is not covered under the OHIP card.
Lastly, the employment insurance in Ontario covers the unemployed laborers who used to work for the companies. The EI refers those workers who apply for the layoff from work. However, according to the Peel region survey, EI insurance in Ontario receives less EI advantageous than the average unemployed worker in remains of Canada. According to the Peel region (2015) study just “22% of unemployed workers in the Toronto territory got EI advantages than the ordinary national unemployed of 43%." Moreover, to get or meet all requirements for the EI benefits, the temporary laborers need to work more
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hours. However, to resolve these above issues, the federal, provincial or municipal develops social policies for the welfare of the society. The social systems are culturally induced with the beliefs, ideology, and values of a society. According to Graham and Delaney (2000), social policy was commenced in the past, connected to the present and directed towards the future. Social strategies are regulated by the formal association to represent and routinize the execution of the organization. According to Anne Westhues (2006), the Canadian Association of Social Worker Code of Ethics for social policies that the people have the right to meet their basic needs with fair access to public services and benefits. According to Midgley and Livermore (2009), a state or government is the most power to actualize the policies in society. Social policies are essential for poverty because people in poverty have a higher chronic illness, emotional and mental problems. According to the Region of Peel (2015), “in 2006, around 61,300 children in Peel region lived in poverty which affects the future of the children, the community, and the economy.” Provincial policies: According to the Peel region (2015), the Provincial social policies address the poverty issue in the community and come with different strategies to reduce the poverty like early child learning, child care services, and parents to inform the child care service plan. Also, the Peel region supports council to ensure that low-income residents of Peel earn enough money for themselves and their families. With the collaboration of government and jurisdictions, Peel region aim to improve and support people living in poverty through early learning, jobs, and care services (Peel Region 2015). Housing is also the concern for many immigrants as well as for the Canadians. Like most of the Canadian and immigrants live in a shelter for their survival due to the high cost of housing. Due to the long waiting list for the affordable housing, people forced to live in the shelter. There are social policies that the government legislates to provide affordable housing to the people. As housing develops an active community to help people raise their family and jobs. Provincial policies: Peel Region social service (2015), shows that the provincial government developed a strategy for the funding of affordable housing and maintenance.
The provincial government follows the long-term affordable housing program and keep municipalities with the legislation to address the local housing needs. Also, Region of Peel (2015) introduces a Peel accessible through the house to apply for social housing and home in Peel ownership program for low-income residents to rent a unit for a living. The region of Peel (2015) develops a Peel Housing and Homelessness Plan in 2013 to increase the security, reasonable, and accessible housing in Peel.
Third, the immigration issue due to the rise in the illegal immigrants. However, these immigrants face a different problem like housing, financial, education, health, discrimination, and paying permanent jobs. As in Canada, the international credits are not recognized which will create the barrier for working in the same field for the immigrants, and they have to do labour job for
earning. Provincial policies: Peel region (2015) represents that the provincial government with the help of stakeholders, policies, and programs able to support the new immigrants into paying jobs. Also, the Peel services develop a fast-tracking foreign credential assessment to evaluate the qualifications and certifications in regulated and non-regulated occupations for the immigrants (Peel Region 2015). Overall, social policies are necessary for a particular formal organization to conduct a work. Policies formulated by the government and will make sure that the public follows these policies by using their power. Social policies develop the social welfare in society by addressing the social issues. Social systems are required to establish good facilities, rights, and responsibilities of the society (Chandrasekere 2016, session 2). Social policies promote development in the interests of all people in society.
In Canada there is no official, government mandated poverty line. It is generally agreed that poverty refers to the intersection of low-income and other dimensions of ‘social exclusion’, including things such as access to adequate housing, essential goods and services, health and well-being and community participation. In Canada, the gap between the rich and poor is on the rise, with four million people struggling to find decent affordable housing, (CHRA) and almost 21% of children in BC are living in poverty it is crucial to address poverty (Stats Can). In class we have considered a number of sociological lens to examine poverty. Structural-functionalists maintain that stratification and inequality are inevitable and
If more people comes in it is harder to find an education, the numbers will get higher and it will be more competive to get in to a University or Colleuge. Also to make the school or campus bigger to fit more students, more tutition fees will be required: "Increases that range from three per cent to 50 per cent were approved for some graduate programs as well, while other graduate program tuition increases have yet to be determined" (Sherlock, 2015). There will be not alot of seats available to everyone which will push other students outside of city that has less population. Gentrification will increase more immigrants which also increase international students population: "The classrooms aren 't getting any bigger, right? And there 's going to be more demand to get in. Canadian students will maybe have to look at options to go to school abroad or somewhere else" (occording to CBC News, 2014). Government wants to accept more international student due to high amount of fees that international students pay: "International students, meanwhile, can pay three times that amount — or an average of $19,500 every year" (CBC News). Furthermore, government is also giving out perminet residency to internationals students who finishes unverscity "In addition to recruiting more, the government wants to prevent "brain drain" by making it easier for international students to obtain permanent residency after graduation." (CBC News, 2014). It will take away the opportunities that can be done by the local students. However, some internation student would go back to their home country; therefore, they only have taken away the local students opportunity of education. Gentrification is increasing a lot and in oder for that more oppourtunites and education system has to be
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Precarious employment is work that is not secure, generally does not include any type of benefits, and is paid so lowly that it generally does not meet the living wage. This type of employment is unfortunately a growing trend in today’s societies due to many factors such as outsourcing, globalization, a saturated job market, shifts from manufacturing to the service sector and jobs also being replaced by computerized units. When speaking on precariousness these trends also affect European societies due to the fact that the outsourcing is generally to places where labour is extremely cheap in order to lower the costs of goods such as Asia and South America. This growing trend is also resulting in negative effects on the economy such as the bottoming out of the middle class and a large amount of citizens living below the poverty line and not able to earn a livable wage. Minimum Wage is on the incline, however, it is still not enough to live on practically and there are many other factors that make precarious work disadvantageous other than the wages such as job security and room for growth and promotion within the company. The negative changes to the job market brought on by the changes to it have resulted in higher expectations and demands from the employers which reduce the amount of people which are eligible for what are now known as “good jobs”. These good jobs generally entail a livable wage, benefits, more flexibility and better job security. Precarious work is categorized and gendered as women and immigrants make up the vast majority of employees in this type of work. Since precarious work affects citizens on a global scale, in this essay, there will be comparisons and contrasts drawn between precarious work in Canada ...
The current issue of inadequacy of social inclusion of recent elderly immigrants in Canadian is directly related to the lack of a long-term, multi-dimensional and pan-Canadian
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...vernment with the public demands and their perspectives on what should be done. Another ideal method highlighted includes introducing a new policy to reduce the lengthy period in which immigrants spend in upgrading their education to be equivalent to Canadian standards. Overall, I highly recommend that the first measure which involves implementing a Social Democratic approach would be ideal in addressing this issue. The reason being is that with this approach, the government would be responsible for implementing new regulations for immigration in Canada that will accompany new policies to ensure that all people are treated with equality and justice. There will be a more humanitarian and egalitarian policies to guide immigration in Canada, which will in turn make it easier for immigrants to participate in the Canadian labour market.
In conclusion, Canada has come a long way in promoting the integration of immigrants socially. The country is making progress integrating immigrants economically, and much needs to be done before the same can be said politically. What is certain, is that the immigrant’s path of integration may be a slow process, and the Canadian government has been slow to propel it… but the future looks bright, and Canada is on the right track.
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