Juno News - December 17, 2019Trudeau’s budget embraces intersectional feminism
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Gender-based analysis is an analytical process used to assess how diverse groups of women, men, and non-binary people may experience policies, programs, and initiatives. GBA+ goes beyond gender to consider additional identity factors such as ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, income, and mental or physical ability.
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You know, if the federal government put as much effort and attention into actually running the
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country as it does into politically correct nonsense, we might actually be in a bit better
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a place as a country. The federal government this week released its economic and fiscal update
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featuring a rather bizarre section about the gender-based analysis, the GBA plus analysis
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that the government undertook as it reviewed its own spending. And I want to see if anything jumps
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out from this paragraph here. Gender-based analysis plus is an analytical process used to assess how
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diverse groups of women, men, and non-binary people may experience policies, programs, and initiatives.
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GBA plus goes beyond gender to consider additional identity factors such as ethnicity, sexual
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orientation, age, income level, and mental or physical ability. Here is the legend for the
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pictograms contained in this summary. Please see introduction to budget 2019's gender report
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for a more detailed description of these terms and fields. And yes, the budget does go through this
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GBA plus analysis as well. But remember, when the gender analysis was first introduced through
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government policies, and we see it across departments, by the way, considerable effort put
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towards this, considerable money hiring consultants to come in to review whether gender is being
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appropriately considered whenever a government program is going on. This was always supposed to
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be about making sure that women weren't being disadvantaged. And broadening it to look at the impacts
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is interesting enough for most people. But now saying that gender analysis is going beyond gender,
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this is the epitome of intersectionality. You can't look at the one without looking at race and
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orientation and ability level and all of these things. Now, the problem with this is that it's
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actually quite patronizing. The government is effectively saying that people are impacted
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differently by deficits if they are black versus if they're white, if they're trans versus if they're
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cis. And, you know, while there certainly are going to be policies that impact certain groups in
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different ways, why would we not as a government focus on how all Canadians are being impacted
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by government spending? Take, for example, this headline in the Wall Street Journal talking about
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the widening deficit in Canada. Well, deficit spending is not good for anyone. Doesn't matter
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what the GBA analysis reveals, all Canadians suffer when the country's finances are not being looked
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after. Why is the government so focused on this identity politics? Because that's the only thing they
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know how to do well. We're talking about finance. We're talking about math. We're talking about
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numbers. When you were in high school math class, did you ever imagine that one plus one equals two
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might be different depending on the gender or identity group? Give me a break. But this is the
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only thing the government right now cares about. They'll spend as much of your money as they conceivably
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can. But oh, don't worry, it's okay, because they did the identity analysis. Intersectionality
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trumping economics. For True North, I'm Andrew Lutton.