Women leaders are running this country, and we should keep it that way

Political parties should be legislated to hire diverse female staffers, including Indigenous women. Political parties should also be legislated to support diverse women to run, including Indigenous women.

Assembly of First Nations regional chiefs Kluane Adamek (Yukon), left, Marlene Poitras (Alberta), and RoseAnne Archibald (Ontario) are the three women on AFN's 11-member executive committee. Photographs courtesy of the Assembly of First Nations

Opinion

BY Rose LeMay

May 18, 2020

OTTAWA—One really couldn’t say I’m a raging feminist, but I am Tlingit, and in my culture, women lead. That’s the way it has always been. Women are essential in leadership because good decisions can’t be made without them. The reverse is also true in a fully functioning society; good decis...

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