Our 2025 federal budget is 493 pages long. The word ‘youth’ appears only eight times. The term ‘child’ appears only six. More than seven million Canadians under the age of 18 who access government services across multiple sectors such as justice, policing, education, national training initiatives, and health care, have somehow been forgotten about in Ottawa.
References to children and youth in this budget are limited to the most extreme efforts of protection or survival. Or, they are mentioned in terms of being the third-party catalyst to dollars that incentivize or assist adults.
Wraychel Gilmore??!!??
The Star is not happy. Carney don’t care about no kids no how anyway.
