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The paper examines the local experimentation of welfare programming in the province of Saskatchewan, and makes comparisons between welfare programming for the vulnerable population of the poor in Saskatchewan to the welfare programming for the poor in the United States and Britain. [...] Our paper examines the local experimentation of welfare programming in the province of Saskatchewan, and makes comparisons between welfare programming for the vulnerable population of the poor in Saskatchewan to the welfare programming for the poor in the United States and England. [...] Before we look at the specifics of the move towards workfare in Canada and Saskatchewan, we will explore the nature of the global economy and the validity of the governments' arguments. [...] The quadrupling of oil prices and the inability of the U. S. to control the market led to uncertainty and the search for new answers (Clarke, 1997). [...] During the 1990s, changes to the welfare system in Canada have been similar to the changes to the welfare system in the United States.