micdotcom: Remember Canada’s “hot” new prime minister Justin…
Remember Canada’s “hot” new prime minister Justin Trudeau? He previously vowed to pick a cabinet with equal gender representation — and just delivered:
- 15 out of 30 appointees are women
- Jody Wilson-Raybould, a native woman, is the new minister of justice
- Maryam Monsef is the new Minister of Democratic Institutions and first Aghanistan-born minister in Canada’s history.
- Jean-Yves Duclos, a man, has ben appointed minister of Families, Children and Social Development.
When reporters asked Trudeau why women’s presence in his government was important he simply responded “Because it’s 2015.” These appointees, especially Wilson-Raybould, could be a game changer.
Someone I remotely work with (who’s Canadian) was swooning about the cabinet appointments in our #offtopic chatroom this morning:
the old Science Minister was a chiropractor who didn’t believe in evolution.
the new one has won a Nobel Prize.
my MP is Minister of National Defence; was a police officer in the gang crime unit, and a Lieutenant-Colonel in the armed forces and served in Bosnia and Afghanistan.
and the Green Party leader actually gets to be part of our delegation to the climate change summit in Paris, rather than having to join the Afghanistan delegation to get in.
(yes really)
this is what happens when you elect a PM who doesn’t insist on top-down centralized decision making
you actually get people who know stuff :)
Go Trudeau.
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