Trudeau’s overhaul of appointments system has created gender parity but minorities still being left behind GlobePolitics
Justin Trudeau's overhaul of the federal appointments system led to 55.5 per cent of appointees to agencies, boards and organizations last year being women, slightly above their proportion in the Canadian population. .The Liberal government’s overhaul of the federal appointments system has led to gender parity in , but new figures show few of those women are in leadership posts and visible minorities are being left out.
“This is one of the reasons why we need to know what constitutes merit,” said Kathy Brock, a politics professor at Queen’s University who has studied the changes in the appointments system. Months after taking power in late 2015, the Liberals changed how the government makes hundreds of appointments each year to positions such as the boards of Crown corporations and tribunals that make decisions on benefit payments and immigration claims. The majority are part-time. They don’t include senators, judges or officers of Parliament such as the ethics commissioner, who are not chosen with the same process.
The percentage of visible minorities currently serving in the roles, nearly doubled, from 4.4 per cent in November 2015 to eight per cent in May 2019. The figures were smaller for visible minorities and Indigenous people: two from each group had been put in “leadership” positions. Like visible minorities and Indigenous people, only two persons with disabilities have been appointed to leadership positions.
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