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thecorvidkey:andailtinfanach:chrisknowsthis:cheshireinthemiddle:mytra-fallen-angel:hominishostilis:cantthinkofusername18:hominishostilis:allthecanadianpolitics:Water is wet.Or maybe it’s because choosing your cabinet members based on sex rather than ability makes no sense.He did choose them on ability though…Is this really confusing for people? When you mandate a gender quota, it effectively bars candidates from being hired even if they’re the better qualified person. He picked based on gender, first. That means regardless of there was a better male candidate for the spot, he had to bypass him - based solely on his gender - to pick from the female candidate pool if he’d already met his “male hire” limit. That’s bullshit. And frankly, women should be insulted that the only thing that seems to matter is their junk, not their actual achievements.Men have been doing the same thing for years…So…you perceive it as bad, but dont see it as a problem when it benefits you? Because equality, right?I love that your argument is “regardless of there was a better male candidate for the spot, he had to bypass him - based solely on his gender - to pick from the female candidate pool if he’d already met his “male hire” limit.” and not the other way around. A 50/50 split means there’s a limit on both sexes, and you’re showing your ass to postulate that qualified men were overlooked because: genitals. And might I add that gender equality wasn’t the only criteria. The cabinet was chosen based on “gender equality, ethnic diversity, regional distribution and a balance of new and veteran MPs”. As an American who knows woefully little about these individuals, I had to do some research, but I’ve seen it mentioned in a few articles that there were notable male and female candidates left out because Trudeau wanted to keep his cabinet small.It’s pretty funny how everyone starts to give a huge shit about meritocracy whenever there’s an effort made to better represent the populace, but when one particular group is disproportionately represented in positions of power, it’s safe to assume that they must have been the best qualified. The members of Trudeau’s cabinet are insanely qualified as are many of the folks who were passed over. When you’re dealing with people performing at a high level, the nominal difference in qualification between candidates A and B can and should be overlooked in favor of factors that are equally as important (usually more so) than that nominal difference. Especially considering the fact that the merits in question are often purely subjective.Why is it so difficult for people to recognize the fact that differences in gender, ethnicity, and regional background have value and for some people – obviously Trudeau – hold merit of their own?Just to provide a concrete example, the current minister of science, Kirsty Duncan, a woman, has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, has done important work on epidemology and climatology, and has taught at the universities of Windsor and Toronto.The three prior ministers for science, under Stephen Harper, were Ed Holder, Greg Rickford, and Gary Goodyear. Holder is an insurance broker by profession, Rickford is a lawyer, and Goodyear is a chiropractor. None of them have graduate-level degrees in the sciences.But of course, conservatives are only voicing their concerns about underqualified people getting these positions now.Yeah, and Jane Philpott, Minister of Health, is a family physician, associate professor at the University of Toronto, and former chief of the department of family medicine at Markham Stouffville Hospital. She’s definitely more qualified than say, Tony Clement, a lawyer, or Rona Ambrose, a columnist.Or there’s Carla Qualtrough, who is a lawyer and former Paralympian. She’s legally blind, she won three Paralympic and four World Championship medals for Canada in swimming and was president of the Canadian Paralympic Committee - and is the minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities. Bal Gosal, the previous minister for Sport, was an insurance broker. Gary Lunn before that was a lawyer.Or Marie-Claude Bibeau,Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, who worked for the Canadian International Development Agency in Ottawa, Montréal, Morocco and Benin, Africa. Christian Paradis, previous minister of International Development, was a lawyer. Julian Fantino before that was a police chief.There is no way that you can tell me that these people were chosen strictly because they were female. They were chosen because they were the best candidates for the positions - same with the rest of the cabinet. You can’t tell me that the Conservatives put the people they did in the cabinet positions they did because they were qualified for them - “lawyer” is not a jack of all trades. -- source link
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