Trudeau government is getting a failing grade on supposed feminist bona fides

For a government that champions gender equality, it sure doesn’t take the concerns of one gender as seriously as another.

From full-capacity shelters to unaffordable rental prices, the housing needs of women are chronically underfunded and neglected—and the situation is even worse for transgender women and non-binary people, write Arezoo Najibzadeh and Erica Ifill.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL, AREZOO NAJIBZADEH

July 22, 2020

OTTAWA—In addition to Black and Indigenous people, the Trudeau government is failing women, hard. Since coming to power in 2015, the Liberal government has done the most—and we mean the most—to appear as a feminist government and the saviour of women all over the globe. From presenting Justin...

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