‘Breathtaking’ childcare pledge to pay dividends beyond recouping pandemic losses: labour experts

The Liberals have offered a feminist budget, say observers, with measures that help women struggling amid COVID-19 in the short term, like rent and wage subsidy extensions.

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland walks to the Sir John A. Macdonald Building for a press conference ahead of tabling her first budget on April 19, more than two years after the Liberal’s last spending plan.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ AND SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

April 20, 2021

The Liberal government deserves some praise for centring in its budget a billion-dollar plan to address the pandemic-propelled she-cession that has seen women exit the labour force in record numbers, say labour experts, who note a more even economic recovery is likely...

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