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E. ECONOMIES OF CANADIAN COMMUNITIES
OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
E1. Economic Inequality: analyse factors that contribute to, and programs that are intended to address, economic inequality in Canada (FOCUS ON: Economic Significance; Stability and Variability)
E2. EconomicVariationsamongCanadianCommunities:explainsomeofthecausesandconsequences of economic variations in different regions of Canada (FOCUS ON: Cause and Effect; Economic Perspective)
E3. The Local Economy: analyse some key aspects of the economy of their local community (FOCUS ON: Economic Significance; Stability and Variability)
SPECIFIC EXPECTATIONS
E1. Economic Inequality
FOCUS ON: Economic Significance; Stability and Variability
By the end of this course, students will:
E1.1 analyse how various factors contribute to poverty in Canada (e.g., gender, race, language, social background, wage rates, unemployment rates, lack of job opportunities in certain regions, outsourcing of jobs as a result of globalization, lack of affordable housing, inadequate education, increase in single-parent families)
Sample questions: “What factors do you think have the greatest influence on who is poor in Canada?” “What impact would an increase in the minimum wage have on the working poor in Ontario?”
E1.2 describe, and assess the effectiveness of, some programs and services that are intended to address economic inequality in Canada (e.g., minimum wages, social assistance, employment insurance, pensions, public education, universal health care, public housing programs, Habitat for Humanity, Goodwill, skills retraining, microcredit or social finance initiatives, new business grants, food banks)
Sample questions: “Which programs/services do you think are the most effective in addressing economic inequality in Canada? Do you think these programs/services are adequate? If not, what more do you think should be done?”
E1.3 explain some ways in which producers can affect economic inequality in Canada (e.g., by providing well-paying jobs, by paying their taxes, by supporting food banks and other community programs to address the needs of those living in poverty, by closing factories and moving jobs outside Canada, by hiring temporary foreign workers)
Sample questions: “Why have some Canadian companies moved their operations abroad or hired temporary workers from other countries? What impact have such practices had on Canadian workers and the Canadian economy?” “What impact would the closing of a major manufacturing company in a small town have on employment and community resources?”
E2. Economic Variations among Canadian Communities
FOCUS ON: Cause and Effect; Economic Perspective
By the end of this course, students will:
E2.1 compare the prices of consumer goods in different regions of Canada, and explain the main causes of regional variation (e.g., availability of goods within the region, transportation costs to relatively remote communities, market size)
Sample questions: “What factors influence differences in food prices between Hamilton, Ontario, and St. John’s, Newfoundland?” “Why might the cost of housing in a region be an indicator of the general economic health of
that region?”
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Making Personal Economic Choices
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