Time to drop the negative tropes about women in cabinet

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's governance has laid the foundation for a shift in cabinet power and authority to women without precedent in Canadian politics, writes Jacquie LaRocque.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured during a media availability after the swearing in of his cabinet for the 44th Parliament in the Sir John A. Macdonald building in Ottawa on Oct. 26, 2021. To the prime minister’s credit, every one of his cabinets since has remained gender-balanced, writes Jacquie LaRocque. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JACQUIE LAROCQUE

October 29, 2021

Some observers were rightly suspicious about the performative quality of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 2015 pledge to have gender parity in his cabinet. While there was indeed a 50/50 split, it was noted in Mr. Trudeau’s first cabinet that men still held the “serious” posts: finance, Trea...

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