That decision was incorporated into the Government Expenditure Restraint Act (C-69) that received royal assent on 1 February 1991.
[5] Further restrictions were applied when the 1994 Canadian federal budget froze CAP payments to their 1994-95 levels for the 1995-96 fiscal year.
As the arrangement was a cost-sharing program and open-ended in nature, the federal government was concerned about an escalation of costs it could not control.
[5] Despite escalating costs in the early 1980s, the Nielsen Task Force on Program Review[note 2] found that no serious alternative could replace the CAP.
The researcher-author, David McClelland, discusses the institutional bias of the Canadian Assistance Plan, and ways it could contribute to individualized rehabilitation funding models in community living.