Resisting the Pension Evil
Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Canada's Board of Pension Commissioners, 1916–33
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 20605151 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Desmond Morton (autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 1987 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 199-224 |
| Data de publicação | 1987-06-01 |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Canadian Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0008-3755 • E-ISSN: 1710-1093 |
| Editora | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/chr-068-02-02 |
| OpenAlex | W2038216005 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 3 |
| Referências citadas | 3 |
ADVANTAGES enjoyed by a new country,' observed Major John Todd as he contemplated the problems of Canada's war disabled in 1915, 'is that when it is confronted by an unaccustomed situation it is usually possible for it, by a consideration of the history of other nations placed in similar circumstances, at least to avoid the mistakes of others.'• Canada's 'unaccustomed situation' in 1915 was the prospect of coping with the enormous toll of disabled survivors that the Great War was certain to create.The same scientific revolution that brought unprecedented carnage to the battlefield also allowed doctors to save an unprecedented proportion of the sick and wounded.In the first year of fighting, France had lost half a million dead but a million more of her men had been released as too disabled for further service.How would Canada, with her tiny population and her primitive social institutions, cope with her share of such a problem?History, as Todd suggested, had some advice.Canada's military pension regulations dated from the Northwest Campaign of 1885 , though they had altered only in detail since the war of 1812.Like their British model, the regulations presumed that officers must have compensation in keeping with their station in life; men in the ranks, as be fitted refugees from starvation, would be content with a pittance
Bureaucracy · Business · Democracy · Economics · Law and economics · Pension · Political science · Politics · Canadian Identity and History · Law · Public Administration
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| Intervalo de citações | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
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