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Justin Trudeau talks about raising sons ‘to be a feminist, just like dad’ at World Economic Forum

The Canadian Press | January 22, 2016 | Last Updated: Jan 22 3:38 PM ET
 


Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promoted gender parity on Friday at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, where four of five delegates are men.

Less than a minute into the discussion Friday, moderator Lyse Doucet, a Canadian journalist with the BBC, had already referenced the “Because it’s 2015” catch phrase.

“People have to know that before I could say, ‘Because it’s 2015,’ an awful lot of hard work went into 2012, 2013, 2014,” Trudeau said Friday. “I personally convinced a number of extraordinary women to step forward (and run for public office).”

He said the Liberals asked people to recommend female candidates and they followed up. He said he convinced women like Chrystia Freeland, now his minister of international trade, to run.
 

He took aim at people who questioned his selections and argued that cabinet posts should be based on merit, not quotas.

“Once I displayed the cabinet, nobody talked” about merit, he said.

Still, he faced questions Friday about how much more Canada needed to do.

The World Economic Forum’s annual report on the gender gap ranked Canada 80th out of 130 countries when it come to wage equality for women and 40th for the number of women in politics and key leadership positions.

“There’s a lot of hard work to do and the first part is recognizing it,” Trudeau said.
Trudeau then said that his wife, Sophie, had pulled him aside a few months ago and told him that it was great he was telling their daughter that she is equal to boys, but he also had to stress his attitudes to their two sons. so they “grow up to be a feminist, just like Dad.”

“We shouldn’t be afraid of the word feminist,” Trudeau said. “Men and women should use it to describe themselves anytime they want.”

A day earlier, on Thursday, Trudeau told a group of young people that he wanted the gender parity and diversity in his cabinet to be the norm in politics.

He said he hoped one day people wouldn’t think of the makeup of his cabinet as a novelty.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/trudeau-to-talk-about-gender-equality-on-davos-panel-with-melinda-gates-and-facebook-exec
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I'll bet Trudeau, being a BIG liberal  would be one happy daddy if his son decided to exercise his rights and have gender reassignment surgery.  ***blushing***
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