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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s brand of feminism is wearing rather thin and hypocrisy is showing beneath it. Last year, the federal government announced that any small business or organization wanting funding under the Canada Summer Jobs program had to be pro-choice. This ridiculous stipulation meant that a pro-life group couldn’t get any money to hire a student to help with, say, groundskeeping over the summer.

More than 1,000 applicants last year refused to abandon their principles and didn’t get any money. However, the government was quite happy to use the tax money from the pro-life individuals involved with these organizations to fund summer jobs for the pro-choice applicants.

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How tree-planting – to name a summer job that comes instantly to mind – interferes with women’s reproductive rights is hard to fathom.

However, this year the language has been toned down. Applicants need no longer attest to their pro-choice leanings, but instead must agree that their jobs won’t “undermine or restrict the exercise of rights legally protected in Canada” or won’t “actively work to undermine or restrict a woman’s access to sexual and reproductive health services.”