Federal budget to unveil incentive for 5-week leave for second parent: official
OTTAWA — The upcoming federal budget will include a five-week, use-it-or-lose-it incentive for new dads to take parental leave and share the responsibilities of raising their young child, The Canadian Press has learned.
In recent days, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has mused about just such an additional parental leave for the second parent.
The goal behind the measure — to be included in Tuesday’s budget — is to give parents more incentive to share child-rearing responsibilities so that new moms can more easily enter the workforce, said a government official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the budget details have yet to be made public.
The government has been under increasing pressure from advocates to make further changes to Canada’s parental leave policies.