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Old 02-10-2007, 02:49 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor View Post
There are enough "worthy" women in Canada to fill 100% of all the political positions. That is not what is being argued. There is a big difference in educating these people about the benifits of public service and creating artificial bench marks as to what is an acceptable level of participation. Once this idea of hiring only certain people because of their differences instead of the quality of candidate arrises.....that is when the system really falls apart. People get in who shouldn't.
I guess what I am getting at, is I don't believe it is an artificial benchmark. If anything, I think the current disproportional representation of males is artificial .
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