Karina Gould is set to be Canada’s first federal cabinet minister to give birth

The democratic institutions minister plans to take six weeks off after having her first child in March.

'For me this is something I wanted, and of course I want to do my job, and I don’t think it’s a choice between one or the other,' says Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould, who is due to give birth in March.The Hill Times file photograph

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BY ALEXANDRA MAZUR

September 13, 2017

Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould has twice made federal cabinet history this year: first in January she became the youngest female ever to be appointed to cabinet, and on Sept. 5 the 30-year-old announced she was expecting a baby in March 2018, which will make her the first ever federal...

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