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Sure it is. Who gets to vote for the riding rep? Or perhaps I should say, who actually does vote, because everyone theoretically could vote, but not everyone does.
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Members of the party in that riding.
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So the question is then, who is voting this way?
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Members of the party in that riding.
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Also, the person that wins also has to be endorsed by the party leader. So the party leader can veto someone too.
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Yes...but so what? Has a female been vetoed because she was female? If not...why bring it up? Males can be vetoed as well ya know.
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Now it's not discrimination in that women are turned away, it's discrimination in that you get all the old boys down at the Sundre Hotel getting together to make sure there "ain't no woman representing me! She should be barefoot and naked in the kitchen!"
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I just aint buying it. Women's votes in these things are equal to mens votes...period. If there is a movement among males to make sure women dont get in, then there are not enough women casting votes to begin with. Afterall, as has been repeated in this thread many times, there are more women than men in Canada, so why aren't they coming together and making sure they are represented? Its a LOT more complicated than 6 farmers sitting around a saloon and deciding they want the women at home.
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I once heard that the women who decide to run are generally more qualified than the men who do so. So why don't they get in?
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Im going to hazard a guess that it's because there are so many fewer female candidates than their are male ones?
There are generally 4 or 5 candidates in any riding in any general election. Predominantly there will be one woman on average in those ridings....i would suspect that in the party elections to determine a candidate for any particular riding, the same would hold true. In fact it may even be more lopsided in the men running vs women running ratio at that level.
Its all about numbers, and the truth is that the majority of people that even begin to seek office are male...and the results just confirm that.