Yesterday, the Liberal Party of Canada issued a press release boasting that the LPC had placed first in the number of women candidates running in this election: 113 or 36.8% of 307 candidates.
Yet only 28% of those candidates are running in winnable ridings.
This places the Liberals third in terms of true female representation - behind the NDP (39%) and Bloc (32%), and one position ahead of the Conservatives (15%).
Canada ranks 51st in the World in representation of women, trailing behind Afghanistan (27th) and Iraq (33rd). Rwanda ranks 1st at 48.8%.
The top countries for representation of women use proportional representation.
Under our current first-past-the-post system (FPTP), nominations frequently are not transparent and are under the control of backroom boys. On average, 80% of the time, the backroom boys select men.
But 80% of Canadians want to elect more women.
Our FPTP system is not transparent and fails to represent women and minorities. In fact, the majority of Orphan Voters - members of the electorate who have been abandoned, neglected and abused by our archaic voting system - are women.
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