It’s 2015, what’s all the kerfuffle about gender parity in Cabinet about?

Sometimes there is a sense that the white male is still the norm and anybody outside that description is affirmative action. But Cabinets need to reflect society, says Andrew Cardozo.

Forty-seven years ago, Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s first Cabinet had no women. Here we are in 2015, and the current Liberal leader back in June promised he would have a Cabinet of an equal number of men and women if elected.  It hardly got reported. Justin Trudeau for...

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