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   From: obama-time@msnbc.com   
      
   There are no men in Canada.   
      
   Justin Trudeau promised in June that half his cabinet would be   
   female if he was elected Canada’s prime minister. Today he gets   
   the job, the women -- and the bruised egos of some experienced   
   men who won’t make it to the top tier of government.   
      
   Trudeau, 43, will be sworn in and announce appointments to about   
   30 cabinet portfolios from finance to foreign affairs to   
   fisheries. Among his ministers, normally chosen from members of   
   parliament, could be former journalist Chrystia Freeland, 47, co-   
   chair of his economic council; Melanie Joly, a 36-year-old   
   lawyer and former candidate for mayor of Montreal; and Jody   
   Wilson-Raybould, 44, an aboriginal lawyer from British Columbia.   
      
   “It’s a message to Canadian women -- and young women in   
   particular -- that this world is about you,” said Jean Charest,   
   the former premier of Quebec who put women in half his   
   provincial ministries in 2007. “You have to move beyond the old   
   boy’s network.”   
      
   Trudeau’s ‘parity cabinet’ is a first in a country where women   
   started voting in 1916, four years before similar rights in the   
   U.S. It ends a centuries-old habit by leaders of large English-   
   speaking countries, including the U.K. and U.S., to name men to   
   a large majority of government posts. France, Italy and the   
   Nordic countries already have had parity cabinets. Canada has   
   been slower than others to elect women, ranking No. 50 last year   
   in women’s government representation on the International   
   Parliamentary Union’s list of 190 countries, down from 17th in   
   1997.   
      
   For Trudeau, a self-declared feminist who won a majority   
   government last month in part by saying he’d bring new voices to   
   Ottawa, selecting a 50-50 cabinet isn’t so simple. First off,   
   he’s choosing from among 134 men and 50 women Liberals MPs, so   
   some long-standing male legislators will be left out. As well,   
   the new gender division comes on top of existing cabinet-making   
   criteria for regional, linguistic and ethnic representation,   
   including the practice of selecting at least one minister from   
   each of the country’s 10 provinces.   
      
   http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-04/feminist-   
   trudeau-to-name-women-to-half-the-posts-in-new-cabinet   
        
      
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