General Politics Discussion

[danbrotherston]

There are 7 women and one visible minority in a cabinet of 21 - that is not a government "for the people" when it doesn't even look like the province you claim to represent.

I haven't looked through his choices, and all his staff, to see which ones were qualified.

Guess do we need to believe in equal outcome for this to happen, rather than equal opportunity?

Excluding Ford, there are 7 woman out of 20 spots, and 1 visible minority out of 20 point, so 40% out of the 20 spots are women/visible minorities(sic).

I don't have the demographics, but looking over the list of MPP's, it looks like there were 25-26 women that won their seat. I can't speak for visible minorities in this case, but 7 out of 20 is 35%, for woman MPP's (33% if you include Ford). The PC's won 76 seats, and 26/76 is 34%.

I, however, prefer equal opportunity, give the job to the most qualified.

I mean, who, if starting a business, and needs 50 workers, and has 200 applicants, 175 from men and 25 from women, would higher 25 women and 25 men? No, they'd hire the most quailed, if their business is important to them. Same thing here, not enough female MPP's one.

As for the visible minorities, I have no idea what's going on there, but again, unsure how many visible minorities won for the PC's (some have weird name, but judging by pictures, they don't look like "Visible" minorities.

First of all, parliament and the cabinet are not a business.  They are elected officials who are supposed to represent us.  I hate it when conservatives call the government a business, because it implies a whole lot of things that are generally not true of how government should operate (and often not true of business either for that matter).

And it's really rather funny to hear it suggested that cabinet positions are based on "who's qualified"...I'm pretty sure they're more to do with politics than qualifications for the actual role.  Which would make the idea of a balanced cabinet appropriate actually.

That being said, you're right, the ratio of men to women is pretty sad within the elected representatives of the PC party as well.  The cabinet does match that low standard.