Global News published this video item, entitled “Canadian government pressured to grant universal access to contraception” – below is their description.
As the Canadian federal government faces calls to improve access to abortion, advocates are now also calling for better access to all types of birth control.
Canada’s Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced $3.5 million for two organizations to help expand access to abortion. But that’s just a small portion of a $45 million promised in last year’s budget.
Advocates say there are lots of other ways to spend the money, including on universal access to all forms of contraception.
Global’s Abigail Bimman explains why it’s a complicated topic and how politicians are responding.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.