Because it’s 2025: Canada at a crossroads on human rights

The question for the next federal government won’t be whether progress has gone ‘too far,’ but whether we have the courage to push it where it needs to go.

Once dismissed as fringe ideology, the anti-gender movement has gained alarming traction in Canada in recent years, writes Colin Druhan.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY COLIN DRUHAN

March 10, 2025

When newly sworn-in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared "because it’s 2015" to justify a gender-balanced cabinet when first forming government that year, it was a statement of inevitability. It implied that progress toward gender parity around the cabinet table was as n...

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