Gender Equality Minister Marci Ien has announced a 5 year, $100 million "action plan" for 2SLGBTQI+ community groups!
I can hardly wait to find out who receives the money.
If $133,000 can buy you one Marouf, $100 million over 5 years can buy you 750 Maroufs, or 150 Maroufs per year. I'm sure we'll see some absolutely fascinating uses of this money.
I'm expecting a whole lot of "Overcoming The Cotton Ceiling" workshops, and I'm also expecting "Hailey Heartless" driving around Vancouver in a brand new Porsche.
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$20M a year isn't much but ... yeah they have to stand on their record. I would like that money to go to LGBT street youth, support programs for folks estranged from their families and specific things but with these things it seems to be about the announcement with no way for us to look back and trace what happened.
This isn't specific to the feds or the Liberals but it would be nice to see them use their power to change that.
Let's see...
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-invests-100-million-into-historic-action-plan-for-lgbtq2s/$5M for "public awares" $7M for data gathering and $75M for community programs. Ok so most is accounted for but the announcement should including a link for the public to trace this stuff IMO.