In Manitoba, a tax-cut shell game is obscuring regressive policies while deepening poverty. As Marianne Cerilli details, activists are working to challenge the provincial government’s focus on tax breaks over vital social investments, urging new Premier Wab Kinew to adopt an intersectional, participatory approach to budgeting to work towards true social justice.
Numbers from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives show that, on average, women make $0.71 for every dollar a man makes, and racialized women make less.