“Canadian women make up half the electorate and almost half the nation’s income tax payers. They contribute $42.4 billion in personal income taxes to the well-being of all Canadians. Despite this heft, the 2008 budget is written as if women are afterthoughts, mere asterisks in the larger Canadian.”

In the report “Budget 2008: What’s in it for Women,” the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) explores the gender impact of Canada’s 2008 Federal budget. It highlights how the budget does virtually nothing for Canadian women struggling to balance family and work life, and how it’s heavy emphasis on tax cuts are strongly tilted in favour of high income men.

The paper also examines the federal government’s priorities laid out in this government’s last three budgets and finds an approach that rewards the rich, but does precious little for the rest of us. Despite availability of huge surpluses, women’s concerns are almost invisible.

Click here to download the full report:
What’s in it for Women? [1]

Click here to visit the CCPA’s website:
www.policyalternatives.ca [2]