The big issue in the next federal budget should be the Care Economy
It’s Canada’s biggest economic driver, and our best pathway to a recovery. Here’s how governments can take it seriously. By Pat Armstrong, Marjorie Cohen, Laurell Ritchie, Leah Vosko and Armine Yalnizyan
April 17, 2021 An intensive care unit nurse takes a moment to write some notes during her shift at a Vancouver hospital on Dec. 4, 2020 (CP/Jonathan Hayward)
Pat Armstrong, professor of sociology, York University; Marjorie Cohen, professor of political science, Simon Fraser University; Laurell Ritchie, Good Jobs For All Coalition; Leah Vosko, professor of politics, York University; Armine Yalnizyan, Atkinson fellow on the future of workers