Gender budgeting promise criticized for lax accountability measures

'I don’t have great faith in this government’s ability to execute anything,' says Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu.

Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu, left, chair of the House Status of Women Committee, is calling on the Liberal government to take steps to ensure the promised gender-based analysis of Budget 2017 is credible and useful. However, the office of Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef, right, says it's waiting for the budget announcement next week to see how the government's promised gender based-analysis is rolled out.The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

March 15, 2017

The Trudeau government’s promised gender-based assessment of the 2017 budget must come with strengthened reporting requirements and measurements to track progress, or it runs the risk of sputtering out as a limp public relations exercise, say critics.

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