Wednesday’s parliamentary outrage du jour was an online summer job posting from Dogwood, a B.C. The Canada Summer Jobs Program distributes funds to all manner of not-for-profits and small businesses, with local MPs — two New Democrats and one Liberal, in this case — deciding which applicants are most deserving. And for the same reason, it would have made sense for the Liberals to cut off an organization like Dogwood. “Tick this box to affirm that your summer employee will not participate in any anti-abortion/anti-pipeline/anti-whatever activities.” Easy peasy. Imagine the Conservative government had decided to nix summer jobs funding for anti-pipeline advocacy (not much of a stretch), or to throw a rare bone to its social-conservative wing and refuse to fund pro-choice advocacy.

Source: National Post April 27, 2018 00:12 UTC