Canada can do better on getting more women elected, 60th place in world right now

But the reality is that it will take more than electoral reform to genuinely shift women’s chronic and historic under-representation in the federal arena given the range of cultural, institutional, and structural challenges.
OTTAWA—A special all-party committee is due to be struck in Parliament any day now, as per the commitment of the Trudeau government during the campaign—and as articulated in the recent federal budget—to explore electoral reform options. The committee is expected to conduct cross-country consu...

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