Feminist Trudeau Names Women to Half of Posts in New Cabinet
- Wilson-Raybould Gets Justice; Freeland Minister of Trade
- Experienced men left out as diverse cabinet has new MPS
Canadian Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau poses for photos with tourists as he walks from the parliament to give a press conference in Ottawa on Oct. 20, 2015 after winning the general elections.
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Justin Trudeau promised in June that half his cabinet would be female if he was elected Canada’s prime minister. Today he got the job, the women -- and the bruised egos of a few experienced men who didn’t get the nod.
Trudeau named 15 women to a cabinet of 30, including Jody Wilson-Raybould, an aboriginal lawyer from British Columbia as minister of justice and attorney general; Chrystia Freeland, a former journalist as trade minister; Jane Philpott, a first-time member of parliament and family doctor, at health.