“It could be a sea change,” says Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, the research chair in policies and health inequalities at McGill University. She knows about the toll of being an informal caregiver from personal experience. Quesnel-Vallée says that if Blais manages to persuade the premier to improve conditions for caregivers in concrete ways, it may be because Legault recognizes that Blais has picked up on a profound cultural shift. “Quebec is ostensibly one of the most feminist societies in North America,” says Quesnel-Vallée “This caregiving program might actually be born out of this same need and desire for women to keep being in the workforce and being supported, as well as having a family.”
Read the full article/listen to the radio show here: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-january-13-2019-1.4971523/in-quebec-family-caregivers-are-demanding-real-change-they-just-might-get-it-1.4972188