In his first major move as Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney eliminated roughly a third of all cabinet positions, including the crucially important Minister of Women and Gender Equality. This decision marks a major setback for women’s rights in Canada at a time when these rights are under threat around the world.
Carney, sworn in as prime minister on Friday, has justified the trimmed-down cabinet as a “smaller, experienced cabinet” positioned to move fast and secure Canada’s economy in the face of US President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada and other threats.
But deprioritizing gender equality does not help Canada’s economy, and risks entrenching serious gendered harms. The gender wage gap and gendered poverty and inequality persist in Canada. Women and gender diverse workers also face disproportionately high levels of harassment and violence at work. Much work also remains for Canada to ensure and support sexual and reproductive health rights at home and abroad.
I think our survival as a nation is more important than token positions in the government.
While I agree that this is a war time cabinet I strongly disagree with the use of “token position,” you are sounding like MAGA and anti DEI.
Not maga or dei. I want effective government in a crisis situation, not someone stuck in 2015 and trying virtue signal.
Do you think an effective government only focuses on a single problem? Or would an effective government govern properly by taking into account multiple issues? Perhaps even issues that impact a half of our countries population?
Were pretty progressive already.
Says the middle class white male.
Were all fucked if we don’t survive as a nation.