Canada Works Programme : The Canada Works Program replaced the Local Initiatives Program (LIP) in 1977-78. As with LIP it was designed to create productive term employment for unemployed persons, help stabilize the labour market and respond to worker dislocation. Priority was given to activities promoting economic recovery, resulting in incremental continuing employment and contributed to improvement of community assets or services, and individuals, would be eligible to submit project proposals that would have to create incremental employment with a minimum of three jobs pre project for a minimum of three weeks. The Canada Works Program incorporated the New Employment and Expansion Development Program (NEED) and the UI/Job Creation Program, together with earlier programs.
An Emergency Response feature was added to the Canada Works Program in order to provide funds outside the normal program application time frames for projects that would aid workers who had lost their jobs due to extraordinary circumstances such as natural disaster, or unexpected closure of a major plant. An Economic Growth feature was added in 1978-79 under which federal departments and agencies could submit job creation proposals to an interdepartmental committee that provided information to the Minister of Employment and Immigration, who, in turn, made a recommendation to the Treasury Board. In 1979 another special feature was added to the program - the Alternative Use of Canada Works Funds, allowing EIC to enter into four year funding agreements with the provinces to create jobs in areas of provincial jurisdiction. In April responsibility for this feature was transferred to the Department of Regional Economic Expansion.
Canada Works was replaced by the Community Development Projects Program in 1980. This program was created to initiate productive term employment for unemployed persons, help stabilize the labour market and respond to worker dislocation. Canada Works was itself incorporated into the Job Development Component of the Canadian Job Strategy in 1985-86.
