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Level electoral playing field by limiting voters’ total financial contributions
Little by little, we are inching towards a sensible system of regulating political financing in this country. We will find the right balance at last when we fully grasp the fundamental principle on which any such system must be based. It is the same that underlies our system of government, and of law: the equality of every individual citizen.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation
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Justin Trudeau should not glibly dismiss universal programs
There are understandable reasons to balk at the prospect of creating new universal programs. The start-up costs can be daunting and if Ottawa is to share the burden with the provinces, as it must, then it will have to wade into the forbidding fed-prov morass. Still, at least in the case of pharmacare, and arguably for daycare, too, the evidence is clear that both the public and the economics support a universal program. So why the opposition?
Tags: child care, economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, pharmaceutical, women
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Federal Budget a Disappointment for Poverty Fighters
Ottawa has been called upon to create a national child care strategy and a poverty reduction strategy to honour a number of international agreements… there’s little dedicated spending to chip away at poverty in the country and no concrete plan, such as one based in human rights, backed by legislation, with rigorous time lines and a promise of federal poverty advocate.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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The federal budget is out. How does it measure up?
This year’s budget takes some positive steps forward on gender equality and science funding, but comes up short on the bold policy moves that will make a real difference for Canadians—universal child care, pharmacare, health care, and tax fairness… when it comes to substantive action to advance a truly feminist agenda, we’re still waiting for the big investments required to build a more equitable and inclusive economy. Here’s some of what was missing from Budget 2018…
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, pharmaceutical, poverty, standard of living, tax, women
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What is GBA+? The federal intersectional doctrine that governs everything now
It’s not just gender. The symbol… illustrates all the other “identity factors” that make up GBA+. The whole point of the program is to ensure that bureaucrats aren’t designing tone-deaf programs that accidentally ignore whole swaths of the population… Effectively, it’s a series of checks to make sure that policy makers aren’t just designing programs for people who think and act like themselves.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, women
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Ottawa’s conservation plan puts Indigenous people in charge of protecting land
The federal government will ask Indigenous people to take on the job of protecting vast regions of Canadian wilderness after this week’s budget promised “historic” investments in nature conservation.
Environmentalists, who praise Ottawa’s decision to spend more than a billion dollars to meet the country’s international biodiversity targets, say the Inuit, the Métis and the First Nations are eager to accept the official role of stewards of the land.
Tags: budget, economy, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation
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Ottawa promises crackdown on loopholes that let big banks avoid billions in taxes
The federal government has singled out Canadian banks for gaming the tax system to artificially reduce their tax bills. In the budget released Tuesday, Ottawa announced it will tighten tax rules “meant to prevent a small group of taxpayers, typically Canadian banks and other financial institutions, from gaining a tax advantage.” The measure was one of a slew of reforms to prevent tax evasion and avoidance that Ottawa estimates will bring in almost $1 billion per year.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, tax
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Information watchdog blasts Liberals ahead of her retirement
“Bill C-58 is a bill for the bureaucracy, it’s definitely not a bill for transparency,” she said of the proposed legislation now in front of the Senate. “The government has made some amendments to the proposed legislation, but it is still regressive in many respects.” Ms. Legault laments the fact the legislation would allow the government to refuse to respond to requests that are too vaguely defined, stating that goes against the principle at the heart of access to information.
Tags: ideology, rights
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Liberal reform of StatsCan checks all the right boxes
The former Conservative government’s argument that the census is an outrageous invasion of privacy, an argument it used to briefly kill the long-form version, was a fatuous one. The Liberal government was right to bring back the mandatory long-form census in 2015. The Liberal’s latest reform also establishes the Canadian Statistics Advisory Council, which will issue an annual report on the state of the national statistics system, and spells out the role of the Chief Statistician of Canada in greater detail.
Tags: ideology, participation, standard of living
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Liberals hatch plan to stop Trumpism: fix income inequality
Canada’s foreign affairs minister, Chrystia Freeland… has penned an article about how Canada plans to battle global trends toward nationalism and protectionism. She calls it “progressive internationalism” and describes how Canada will be pursuing this idea in 2018 on two tracks: internationally, in the realms of human rights, immigration and freer trade; and domestically, with fairer taxation and improved labour standards here in Canada… Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is also in the midst of a large-scale effort to battle economic inequality
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration
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