Juno News - December 17, 2019


Trudeau’s budget embraces intersectional feminism

Topics
identity politics
Hosted by
Andrew Lutton
Ryerson University student union torn apart by social justice kerfuffle Justin Trudeau is no longer running the country

Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

155.77

Word count

517

Sentence count

30

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Summary

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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.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 You know, if the federal government put as much effort and attention into actually running the
00:00:10.280 country as it does into politically correct nonsense, we might actually be in a bit better
00:00:15.380 a place as a country. The federal government this week released its economic and fiscal update
00:00:21.480 featuring a rather bizarre section about the gender-based analysis, the GBA plus analysis
00:00:28.320 that the government undertook as it reviewed its own spending. And I want to see if anything jumps
00:00:33.700 out from this paragraph here. Gender-based analysis plus is an analytical process used to assess how
00:00:40.180 diverse groups of women, men, and non-binary people may experience policies, programs, and initiatives.
00:00:47.300 GBA plus goes beyond gender to consider additional identity factors such as ethnicity, sexual
00:00:55.000 orientation, age, income level, and mental or physical ability. Here is the legend for the
00:01:01.160 pictograms contained in this summary. Please see introduction to budget 2019's gender report
00:01:06.700 for a more detailed description of these terms and fields. And yes, the budget does go through this
00:01:14.100 GBA plus analysis as well. But remember, when the gender analysis was first introduced through
00:01:19.780 government policies, and we see it across departments, by the way, considerable effort put
00:01:24.680 towards this, considerable money hiring consultants to come in to review whether gender is being
00:01:30.560 appropriately considered whenever a government program is going on. This was always supposed to
00:01:35.700 be about making sure that women weren't being disadvantaged. And broadening it to look at the impacts 0.91
00:01:40.700 is interesting enough for most people. But now saying that gender analysis is going beyond gender,
00:01:46.680 this is the epitome of intersectionality. You can't look at the one without looking at race and
00:01:51.720 orientation and ability level and all of these things. Now, the problem with this is that it's
00:01:56.940 actually quite patronizing. The government is effectively saying that people are impacted
00:02:02.900 differently by deficits if they are black versus if they're white, if they're trans versus if they're
00:02:08.940 cis. And, you know, while there certainly are going to be policies that impact certain groups in
00:02:13.360 different ways, why would we not as a government focus on how all Canadians are being impacted
00:02:18.560 by government spending? Take, for example, this headline in the Wall Street Journal talking about
00:02:23.660 the widening deficit in Canada. Well, deficit spending is not good for anyone. Doesn't matter
00:02:29.080 what the GBA analysis reveals, all Canadians suffer when the country's finances are not being looked
00:02:34.880 after. Why is the government so focused on this identity politics? Because that's the only thing they
00:02:40.860 know how to do well. We're talking about finance. We're talking about math. We're talking about
00:02:45.680 numbers. When you were in high school math class, did you ever imagine that one plus one equals two
00:02:50.540 might be different depending on the gender or identity group? Give me a break. But this is the
00:02:55.460 only thing the government right now cares about. They'll spend as much of your money as they conceivably
00:03:00.260 can. But oh, don't worry, it's okay, because they did the identity analysis. Intersectionality
00:03:06.300 trumping economics. For True North, I'm Andrew Lutton.
00:03:10.860 Peace.
00:03:14.080 Speaker 1