Financing Trudeau's Woke Feminist Hell

whacky adventures in Department of Women + Gender Equality finances

Let’s talk about how the Feminist Government of Canada spends our money, readers.

In 2018 the Trudeau Regime implemented some changes to Wokify the federal government. One of those changes involved deleting the Department of the Status of Women and creating the Department of Women and Gender Equality. Despite ceasing to exist in 2018, the Status of Women Department still spends a cool $12.3K on a contract with Xerox Company. In fact Xerox Company, has a contract with both the Status of Women Department and the Department of Women and Gender Equality. The invisible department has slightly increased its expenditure on Xerox for IT Software Licensing over the past 4 years, in fact.

Xerox Company Contracts by Federal Department

That’s a weird quirky find. But wait, theres more.

Since its formation in 2018, Women and Gender Equality has increased its spending on contracts from $1M in 2018 to $9M in 2022. The largest contractor, University of Western Ontario, received nearly half a million dollars for research. I seen no evidence of that cool half mil of public funds when I visit the department website, which looks like my neighbour’s 10 year old daughter designed it. However The Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children (CREVAWC) has existed long since Montreal Massacre Days, and it appears fairly professional and reasonable, i.e non GenderWang. What Women and Gender Equality research did the Feds pay the University of Western Ontario $900K to conduct, though? Greta Bauer conducted her TransYouthCan research based in the University of Wester Ontario, SSHRC funds that research.

We will see what ATIP reveals about this contract.

Moving on, because, wait—there’s more. More TAXPAYER money to be thrown at non existence problems in the name of governance. Consider the dramatic change in the department’s financial position :: from (236,692) in 2019, just after its incorporation, to (2,317,602) in 2023. Readers, the Trudeau Regime added 3 zeroes to that opening balance in FOUR years! Do the simple math—this is an 89.8% increase in that departmental deficit! I find that incomprehensible, and criminal.

The numbers speak for themselves, so I will show you, rather than tell you. Figure 1 shows the value of contracts tendered to private firms over time by the Department of Women and Gender Equality. Figure 2 shows the number of grants and contributions made to NGOs over time by the GenderWang department.

Figure 1 :: Women & Gender Equality expenditure on contracts

Figure 2 :: Women & Gender Equality number of grants and contributions

Take a look at Figure 3 below. You can see the Covid-19 crisis, where the Trudeau Regime began to rule the country by NGO-calphate, caliphate describing a semi-religious undemocratic authoritarian political system of rule over a society. Covid provided the Trudeau Regime an opportunity to suppress individual liberties further than it already had — PMJT made a bid to centralise power at the beginning of Covid, which the provinces resoundingly opposed.

Nonetheless the power of fear driven propaganda, combined with the Foucauldian biopower of Public Health laws, imposed draconian restrictions on Canadians, up to and including lockdowns and forced experimental medical treatments, and encouraging people to snitch on their neighbours for breaking state imposed social distancing protocols that prohibit socialising. Suspension of individual liberties and prohibition of mass gatherings naturally imposed severe psychological hardship on the population—social connection IS a biological necessity for humans. The Trudeau Regime fixed it by pouring more money into NGOs, it also employed heavy-handed narrative management.

Trudeau certainly did bring in a new way of governing, didn’t he?

Figure 3 :: Dollar Amount of Grants & Contributions Across all Departments

Canada Becomes Global Champion of Empowering of Women + Girls

“Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy recognizes the importance and impact of supporting women’s rights and movements. I am excited to think of the collective impact we can have together with partners, investors, philanthropists and the private sector to help address the funding gap faced by women’s rights defenders and gender-equality advocates in developing countries.

We can achieve so much more together as we strive to achieve the eradication of poverty through the empowerment of women and girls.”

- Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, 25.5.2018

“Women’s rights are challenged the world over. With the Equality Fund and domestic partnerships announced today, Canadians are shifting the power to women’s rights organizations and supporting women pushing back against the push back. Behind this effort is Canada’s best in philanthropy, feminist leadership, banking and investment, and international development. Canada secures its spot as a leading donor for women’s rights and gender equality globally. We’re tapping into the momentum from the Women Deliver 2019 Conference to mobilize for power, progress and change for everyone, everywhere.”

- Maryam Monsef, Minister of International Development and Minister for Women and Gender Equality, 2.6.2019

Figure 4 :: DevData dashboard: Global Affairs Canada

The Policy contains the following six Action Areas:

1. Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls; which is the core Action Area. Gender equality can be advanced throughout our work by integrating this analysis across the other areas of action.

2. Human dignity, which includes health and nutrition, education and humanitarian action;

3. Growth that works for everyone, which targets areas such as sustainable agriculture, green technologies and renewable energy;

4. Environment and climate action focusing on adaptation and mitigation, as well as on water management;

5. Inclusive governance, including democracy, human rights and the rule of law; and

6. Peace and security, by promoting inclusive peace processes and combatting gender-based violence.

The Policy also commits to improve evidence based decision making by investing in better data collection and evaluation for gender equality. This can be achieved in part by developing stronger and more meaningful performance indicators to track the performance of Canada’s international assistance programming. — Government of Canada website

Figure 5 :: Partnership to fund gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in Canada and abroad

Canada has devised a three-pronged strategy to guide distribution of funds:

1. Addressing sexual violence such as child + forced marriage, and female genital mutilation/cutting

2. Supporting and strengthening women’s rights, gender equality, and the empowerment of women and girls

3. Supporting policymaking and programme delivery centred on gender equality

In May 2023 CTV reported that the Auditor General could not track the efficacy of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Programme (FIAP). The auditor noted that Global Affairs Canada had no strategy to apply to their funding outcomes. We found that Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy included commitments on how funding should be spent but had no goals related to specific improvements in the circumstances of those who benefit from the funding. The auditor found several weaknesses and irregularities in the departmental management of projects, and noted that it failed to meet two out of three of its funding commitments. Covid-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine placed fiscal demands on Global Affairs Canada that necessitated diverting funds from the Feminist International Assistance Programme to those funding priorities.

Figure 6 :: Report 4 | Reports of the Auditor General of Canada

Do you notice that Canada offered women in the developing world a vision of women’s rights that they have denied Canadian women? Currently the Trudeau Regime promotes a cult of body modification and sex change as affirming care to young women in Canada and fights female genital mutilation in the developing world, though. Canada disempowers girls by taking away their right to play female sport. Canada disempowers women by denying them the right to sex based services such as female only rape shelters, and by declaring their right to assembly free from male presence as hateful and exclusionary. Yet Canada promotes empowerment of women and girls in the third world. The auditor found that the department’s gender equality assessment process for projects did not consistently include analysis of intersecting identify factors, apart from age. Without integrating factors such as location or family status into the gender equality assessments, it was not clear how the department assessed the degree to which projects were designed to deliver inclusive programming.

So, how did we do, Canada? How did foreign policy and public administration analysts receive the Trudeau Regime’s FIAP? In Policy Magazine, Caroline Wilson writes, the role of the government does not end at merely sponsoring programs and providing assistance if the aim is to create transformative change for empowerment and poverty reduction. The FIAP by definition has been collaborative and inclusive, but there is not enough transparency on how it aims to create structural transformation. In short, governments who wish to create change cannot just throw money at the problem and the people involved, how do we know Canadian taxpayers know what kind of bang we got for our buck? A review of Global Affairs Canada International Assistance Programme in Afghanistan revealed a weakness in the international aid process — aid programmes favour donor priorities and consider less the context of the recipients and their needs.

International aid should not be used as a mere instrumental tool for existing organizations and movements but as a transformative instrument that challenges systemic power imbalances and promotes equity and empowerment, starting at the local level. — Caroline Wilson

In International Journal, Jessica Cadesky writes, that Canada has erected FIAP on shaky ground, that essentialising women and girls as vulnerable impedes women and girls in the long run. The tendency for Canadian policies to essentialise women and girls is also perpetuated by the FIAP. The FIAP continually lumps women in with girls within the framing of vulnerable people. This practice reveals not only how the policy essentializes women as vulnerable, but also a failure to account for the ways in which different groups of women—and some men—are both multiply marginalized or advantaged depending on their ethnicity, religion, age, (dis)ability, and other factors of identity.

Cadesky astutely notes the flaw in equating gender equity with women’s empowerment. In fact, I would take that further and posit that in some cases gender equity works AGAINST empowerment of women and girls. This hold true when GenderWang zealots promote sex denialism — gender equity predicated on sex denialism inherently harms girls and women and thwarts their empowerment. Cadesky mentions what Maxine Molyneux called women as conduits for policy.

Q: So, how did we do, Canada, when it comes to the FIAP?

A: We don’t know. That’s the simple answer, we don’t have that information.

I’ll end this piece with a quote from Jessica Tomlin, the Co-CEO of The Equality Fund:

Like other new and ambitious policy agendas, the FIAP has faced challenges. Its biggest hurdle so far? Lack of investment. Feminist policies require resources, and the ODA budget remains far too low. That’s why 77 of Canada’s leading international aid agencies have come together to call for Canada to increase international aid beyond last year’s $8.15 billion envelope and to commit to a predictable, three-year increase to reach $10 billion by 2025.

The implementation of FIAP also has room for improvement, and the Auditor General’s report released today includes important recommendations, particularly around improving information management practices and reporting on results. To be clear, the report does not question the need for the policy itself; rather, it recommends improved systems to capture its impact.

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