1. I want to return to something @jonkay said in this panel about gender parity in the Canadian cabinet.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnWJ-l5aRLA&feature=youtu.be …
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2. Kay's comment: "It's a quota. I'm old fashioned. I don't like quotas. I think it should be a strict meritocracy"
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3. Judging by comments about being "old fashioned" Kay seems to think prior to this proposal for gender parity, Canada was a meritocracy
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4. As editor of Canada's leading general interest magazine, there are a few facts that Kay might be interested in learning.
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5. Canadian federal (or for that matter provincial) cabinets have never, ever been "strict meritocracies."
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6. Every Canadian government tries to have a regional parity in cabinet -- i.e. select people from BC, prairies, Ontario, Quebec, maritimes
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7. When Conservatives win very few seats in Quebec or Liberals in Alberta, they still pick people from those regions for cabinet.
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8. The regional parity of Canadian gov'ts is a quota: they pick not by abstract ideal of merit but democratic ideal of representation
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9. But even more: women in Canada didn't get vote till 1918. So before then there was a legal quota keeping political power in male hands.
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10. With few exceptions, Native Canadians didn't get vote till early 1960s. So legal quota keeping political power exclusive to non-Natives
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11. But even beyond legal barriers, there are social barriers that have barred women (and Natives and non-whites) from political power.
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