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Tuesday’s federal budget was cloaked in self-serving Liberal virtue. It was even run through a gender lens analysis to prove how darned progressive it was.

In reality, it’s a fraud. Because this budget isn’t good for women. It’s not good for anyone.

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Sure, a whole section of the budget – given second-place billing – focused on gender issues. And there are 358 references to gender throughout, according to a count by the National Post.

It promises to sort the gender wage gap among federal workers. It funds feel good projects like “A National Conversation on Gender Equality with Young Canadians” and “Engaging Men and Boys to Promote Gender Equality”.

The Trudeau Liberals even nobly coughed up $10 million of taxpayer dollars for something called the “Women in Construction Fund”, and aims to see more women working as welders and pipe-fitters.

That’s all well and good and may end up helping a few women here and there. But there’s a whole lot that this budget doesn’t do for women.