Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat down with Gen Squeeze Founder Paul Kershaw for a live show with our supporters and allies in Vancouver. They delved into the 2024 Budget's focus on "Fairness for Every Generation," as well as housing, child care, climate change, deficits, and the challenge of protecting healthy retirements without sacrificing the wellbeing of younger and future Canadians.

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• Slides from the event with graphics
• ⁠Prime Minister Trudeau's budget announcement video, which ends with a plea to older generations: "We can't let them down."⁠
• Support our call for an Act to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Present and Future Canadians
• Our take on Budget 2024
• Leger x Post Media report that found most Gen Z & Millennials agree that politicians are more interested in protecting interests of older generations and that previous generations are ‘rigging the system’.
• Previous Hard Truths episodes with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May

Younger Canadians are far from alone in feeling squeezed by the rising costs of housing, child care, and higher education. In this episode, we spoke with Liz Emerson, CEO of the UK's Intergenerational Foundation, about the symptoms of generational unfairness harming young people in England, as well as the progress her organization has made calling political attention to their plight and fighting for a fairer deal for young and future generations.

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• "Canada promises generational fairness" by Liz Emerson
• Hard Truths: Younger Australians aren't getting "a fair go" either

When you think about what makes us healthy, do you think of doctors, medicine, and hospitals? Or do you think of affordable housing, living wages, and quality child care? Our health depends much more on the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age than on the medical care we receive. But for decades Canadian governments have devoted more and more of their budgets to medical care, leaving less money for the social supports that matter more to lifelong wellbeing. This unhealthy imbalance in government spending is a major obstacle in our quest to make Canada work more fairly for all generations. So we spoke with award-winning author and journalist André Picard about how curing our “sickness care system” will require greater investment in the building blocks of a healthy society.

⁠André Picard⁠ has been writing about health for ⁠The Globe & Mail⁠ since 1987 and was appointed to the Order of Canada last year for his dedication to public health journalism.

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• ⁠Get Well Canada⁠, our alliance pushing Canadian governments to rebalance how they invest in wellbeing
• "⁠Canada must rethink health spending strategy⁠" by André Picard, The Globe & Mail
• "⁠Smart health-care policy must include affordable housing⁠" by André Picard, The Globe & Mail
• ⁠CBC Ideas⁠: "We don't have a health-care crisis, it's an implementation crisis, says André Picard"
• CCPA's The Monitor featuring Get Well Canada
• Watch our video about Past Policy Chickens