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Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s third budget released Tuesday is very much a left-wing document and they’re not even trying to hide the fact. For a supposedly financial document, it’s rife with identity politics — touching upon multiple issues of gender and race.

Prior to the release they were teasing this as the first budget seen through a gender lens. Oh boy, do they deliver on that front.

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The word gender appears 358 times. Choose another big issue, say, terrorism — that word doesn’t appear once. It tells you something about priorities.

While the first chapter is wisely about bolstering the middle-class, chapter two — so their second priority — is all gender issues. They offer multiple pages to “addressing the gender wage gap”, toss in $10 million for a Women in Construction Fund, herald the creation of a new Centre for Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Statistics and pony up $1.8 million for something called Engaging Men and Boys to Promote Gender Equality.