Liberals’ budget doesn’t crack through favoured performative veneer

Ultimately, this is not a ‘prudent’ budget, it’s a pre-austerity one and the Liberals have already proposed a strategic review for the federal bureaucracy in the middle of an ongoing pandemic.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, and the Liberals have apparently single-handedly fixed patriarchy—and its concomitant structures of discrimination—with childcare, since ‘feminist’ is only mentioned twice in the budget tabled on April 7, writes Erica Ifill. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

April 13, 2022

OTTAWA—What a patriarchal budget from a so-called “feminist.” It just goes to show you can’t girl-boss your way out of neoliberalism. On Thursday, April 7, Canada�...

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