Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has named a gender equal cabinet
They include a millionaire businessman, a geoscientist, a Paralympian and a refugee who fled the Taliban. Half of them are women. This is the new cabinet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled on Wednesday
Trudeau picked 15 men and 15 women as part of a ministerial team that he says looks “like Canada”.
The 43-year-old Liberal party leader took the oath of office Wednesday, and introduced a younger, more diverse cabinet, according to Al Jazeera. Most ministers are 35 to 50 years old.
Canada’s PM has announced that the new cabinet is made up of 15 men and 15 women, the first time in Canadian history that there has been an equal number.
“It’s an incredible pleasure for me to be here today, before you, to present to Canada a cabinet that looks like Canada,” Mr. Trudeau said to cheers from the crowd.
Why, a reporter asked, was “gender parity” so important to you? Trudeau, a proud feminist, responded with a shrug, and said “Because it’s 2015.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his 30 new ministers started tackling thorny issues within hours of forming government, including two ambitious priorities by year-end: a shift of the tax burden from the middle class to the rich and the resettling of 25,000 Syrian refugees.
Justin Trudeau, Canada’s new prime minister, had a joyful swearing-in ceremony on Nov. 4.
Instead of arriving in the traditional black cars favoured by ministers of state, Trudeau and his family stepped off a bus, greeting the crowd and taking selfies with them.
