The informative Social Assistance Statistics Report, published by the federal and provincial/
territorial governments, was last released in 2010 and presented 2008 data. In its place, the Caledon
Institute will publish a Social Assistance Summaries series as part of its web-based Canada Social
Report which will be operational in spring 2015. In the interim, this publication offers an advance
viewing of 12 of Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial Social Assistance programs. Material from
Nunavut was not released in time to be included in this paper.