[1][2] The 1995 Canadian federal budget announced that both the Established Programs Financing and the Canada Assistance Plan would be combined into a new block-fund fiscal arrangement called the Canada Health and Social Transfer starting in 1996–97 fiscal year.
[4] The agreement was legislated through the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements and Established Programs Financing Act, 1977[note 1] which received royal assent on 31 March 1977.
[5][6] The EPF was subjected to multiple rounds of cuts since the mid 1980s, under both Liberal and Progressive-Conservative governments.
[7] In the 1985 federal budget, Finance Minister Michael Wilson announced a plan to limit the rate of the growth of EPF to save $2 billion by fiscal year 1990–91.
[10] The 1990 budget froze EPF per-capita entitlements through fiscal year 1991–92, a measure implemented by the Government Expenditure Restraint Act that received royal assent on 1 January 1991.