LANA PAYNE: Spare us the faux outrage
It’s as if their own dismal record on women and equality didn’t happen, so inspired is their faux outrage.
This week Conservative women MPs continued to call out Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for being a “fake feminist.” as if they give two cents for feminists and the fight for equality waged by them.
Do they think feminists will vote for them or will be fooled by the faux feminism within the Conservative Party?
You see feminists don’t cancel billions of dollars in childcare funding because feminists support and advocate for universal and affordable childcare. They know that this is critical to a more equal Canada for women.
You may recall that the very first act of the former Harper government was to eliminate childcare agreements with provinces, amounting to a loss of billions of dollars earmarked to help build a universal child-care system across the country.
Now, a dozen years later, and childcare remains inaccessible to most families, expensive and still a major barrier to equality for women. Instead, the Conservatives took those billions of dollars and handed them out in corporate tax cuts — money that for the most part sat on balance sheets instead of being invested in jobs and upskilling or wages.
Feminists also don’t slash funding to feminist organizations doing important work in communities across Canada, including supporting survivors of violence and advocating for an end to violence against women and girls and doing so with very little resources.
Feminists don’t weaken gun laws. They do what New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did in response to a gross act of terrorism that took the lives of 50 Muslims while they prayed. They act to ban assault weapons and they do it decisively.
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