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The Employment and Social Insurance Act was a statute, enacted by the Parliament of Canada in 1935, during the final months of the government of R.B. Bennett. The Act was intended to introduce a nationwide employment insurance scheme, and also to convince voters that Bennett was willing to intervene aggressively in the economy, as President Roosevelt had done in the United States with the New Deal. The Act was a key component of the program of interventionist laws known as "Bennett's New Deal." In 1936, the Act was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada(), as unemployment insurance was found to fall under one of the heads of power assigned by Canada's constitution to the provinces. The ruling of the Supreme Court was upheld by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1937 (). The ''Employment and Social Insurance Act'' therefore failed to achieve its policy goal, as Canada was left without unemployment insurance. In the general election of 1935, the Conservatives lost votes to two new parties, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Social Credit Party, and were replaced in government by the Liberals led by Mackenzie King, whose proportion of the vote held constant from the last election. == Background == In 1919 the Royal Commission on Industrial Relations, sometimes called 'The Mathers Commission', recommended a national program of unemployment insurance.〔Employment Insurance; The CanadianEncyclopedia. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/employment-insurance〕 In 1930, the Conservative government was elected due to a promise of federal action against unemployment. Initially, the federal government pursued the traditional model of providing temporary and emergency funding to municipalities in support of their relief aid. Over time a new policy was developed in an effort to combat public unemployment that would be administered by the federal government and provided nationally.〔Employment Insurance in Canada: History, Structure and Issues; Mapleleafweb. http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/employment-insurance-canada-history-structure-and-issues〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Employment and Social Insurance Act」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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