Heard On The Hill

Canada is lagging on gender parity, and a new campaign wants to fix that

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Marci Ien, the minister for women and gender equality and youth, is one member of Justin Trudeau's gender-balanced cabinet, which the prime minister has maintained since 2015. But the rest of Parliament isn't so balanced when it comes to gender parity. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

September 26, 2022

Canada has nothing to brag about when it comes to gender parity in politics. In fact, Canada places 60th out of 187 countries when it comes to the percentage of women in its Parliament, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union's Parline, which collects data parliaments around the world. That's ...

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