Extract: The Task Force was organised to investigate ways in which co-operatives could better contribute to meeting the economic and social needs of Canadians. Main recommendations concerned strengthening capital formation ; renewing the commitement to education, increasing research, boosting exports, fostering worker-owned co-operatives, encouraging health services co-operatives, assisting fisheries co-operatives, expanding housing cooperatives, strengthening co-op support organisations, improving government structures.

Report on cooperative development as a factor in economic and social development in Canada - describes the cooperative movement; stresses the importance of capital formation, cooperative education, and a supportive institutional framework; advocates the establishment of workers cooperatives, health service cooperatives, fishery cooperatives and housing cooperatives. Graphs, statistical tables.