The federal treasury is set to spend $7.5 billion over a decade to help fund child-care spaces across the country. Article Continued Below“That disconnect ... is notable for a government that is taking a lot of really important feminist steps,” Bezanson said. That makes it difficult to commit to any major increases in spending, Bezanson said, noting that child care is often where funding is neglected. Internal government documents provide a window into the Liberals’ efforts to walk their feminist talk, with a universal child care system noted as a best practice internationally and domestically for feminist governments. Had women and men participated equally in the labour force nationally in 2016, shortly after the Liberals took office, the government estimated that 880,000 more women would have been working that year.

Source: thestar January 08, 2019 21:50 UTC