Women: Action Plan and Government

women: Social Services Minister Lisa Macleod scrapped an advisory panel on violence against women without putting forth the government's action plan to end this social ill, according to The Toronto Star. Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS It's bad enough that the Ford government doesn't appear to see helping Ontario's most vulnerable women as a significant priority. In another worrisome move, her cabinet colleague, Attorney General Caroline Mulroney, acknowledged she has delayed delivering critically needed, already-budgeted funding to sexual-assault crisis centres across the province. But more than that, these moves are further evidence of a troubling trend by the Ford government to cut first, think later and damn the consequences. The government should be asking itself If not this, than what before it pulls the plug on any programming. Indeed, axing programs without researching their merits or having readied anything with which to replace them has proven to be not just unwise, but potentially costly and dangerous. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.