India visit and budget more related to style than substance

Achieving gender parity has been a long-standing mantra of the prime minister. But some of the Liberal budget measures backing it up were plucked out of the NDP’s last election platform, Chantal Hébert writes.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau pictured with their children in India.
OTTAWA—Connect the dots between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s India adventure and the budget and what you find is what was meant to be a pre-emptive one-two punch against the NDP. Trudeau is hardly the first prime minister to use trips abroad—including to India—to shore up support ...

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