Opinion
The state of gender justice
By Paulette Senior December 16, 2021
We need gender justice pursued at a level, pace, and sophistication Canada has not yet known.
Minister for Women and Gender Equality Marci Ien, pictured Nov. 8, 2021, arriving for the Liberals' caucus meeting in the West Block in Ottawa. 'We need gender justice to be positioned as a central goal in government, and it can’t just be a matter of remedial responses. We need a sea change,' writes Paulette Senior. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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