Why the gender budget is important to Canada - and what it got wrong

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Kate Bezanson is chair and associate professor of sociology at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont.

The new federal budget may have been Canada’s first gender-equality budget, but it didn’t please everyone. It has been criticized as a too-much budget (too much gender), a too-little budget (too little deficit reduction) or a pre-election budget (sprinkling relatively small investments across a number of policy areas).