As we tried to bring back the gold standard which had been dropped by many nations before World War 1 for military purposes, it didn’t go well and currency was devalued to almost nothing. Deflation and the 1929 stock market crash were no help to currency being devalued. High loss of lives, land, and economic structure in the war caused multiple issues from almost no health care support for disabled war vets to war vets not being able to find any form of labour or job. The economy in Canada was spiraling down as a result. We had to find some way of bringing the economy and our standard of life back up to speed. So the idea of social welfare became increasingly popular. It was a democratic system that is there to insure the stability, security, and prosperity in our daily lives. Although as the idea was introduced not everyone was too excited about it.