Question Period
Women’s employment
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My question is for the Minister of Finance. In your government’s first budget, the word “beer” was mentioned 12 times, while the word “women” was mentioned a mere four times. We’ve seen this government overlook women time and time again, from preventing the Pay Transparency Act from coming into force to defunding rape crisis centres and disbanding the expert panel on violence against women. Now more than ever, women in Ontario are at risk of losing hard-won gains in the workplace as the COVID-19 pandemic has clear gender impacts on women’s employment. Experts have been ringing the alarm bell about the she-cession and the need to invest in a she-covery, but the government has been silent. Speaker, through you to the minister: What investments are planned in the upcoming budget to mitigate the economic impacts of COVID-19 on women, and have you finally put your budget through a gender-based lens?
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