Require parties to run equal numbers of men and women, including in winnable ridings. Those that fail to comply forfeit their right to compete. Period.
Ensuring women are present, visible, and influential in decision-making bodies has transformative potential on many fronts.
Although Canada ranked in the top 30 for the percentage of women in Parliament at the start of the millennium, we’ve since dropped to 71st place in the world.
Whether or not women exert meaningful influence in legislatures and Parliament depends in large part on the partisan stripe of who holds power.
