Women account for 88 seats,or 26%, in house of commonsTen First Nations MPs and at least 10 Muslims electedThe newly elected Canadian parliament which handed the Liberal party leader, and Justin Trudeau,his landslide majority on Monday will be the country’s most diverse, with more female, and Muslim and First Nation members than ever before in the nation’s history.
Eighty-eight of the unique parliamentary intake are women,bettering the last parliament – which had also broken this record – by 12 MPs. However, due to a series of electoral boundary changes there are more seats in this parliament, and so the percentage of female representation only increased by less than one-half of a percentage point. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com