Trudeau's Argument Analysis

“Because it’s 2015” is what our new Prime Minister said when asked about his cabinet for his term.Trudeau wanted a “cabinet that represented Canada and that was gender balanced” (Global News). Trudeau knew that Canada was diverse and that today gender, race or age should not be a problem when hiring people for the position. Equality should not be as big of an issue as it is in 2015. The concept of minorities and visual minorities should not still be around, but it still is. This concept was put into place in the 80s with the Employment Equity Act “set to remove barriers in the labour market” (Quan, 5). The four main minority groups are: women, aboriginals, the disabled and visual minorities. Visual minorities are described as “non-caucasian …show more content…
From the explorers taking over their land, placing them in reservations and then taking their own children away and putting them in residential schools to be abused. The aboriginal peoples history has been a rocky road caused by the white men who came to Canada over to Canada almost 500 years ago. Today only four 4.4% of Canada’s Population is aboriginal and as of 2010, they are only represented by 5 members of parliament (Valberg, 1). In this past election the number rose to 10 members in the House of Commons. But that is still only 3% of the total 338 MPs (Fontaine, 9). One of the reasons why aboriginals are under-represented in parliament would be because they are such a small portion of our population that they almost seem to blend into the scenery. There is a huge wage gap between aboriginals and non-aboriginal peoples and a huge gap with education. It would take about 63 years for Aboriginal people to catch up with the wages of non- aboriginal peoples (Wilson, 8). Also 32% of the aboriginal population did not finish high school, while only 14% of women and 8% of aboriginal men completed a bachelor degree or higher (Wilson, 15). This education gap could be the reason why there are so few Aboriginal people in parliament, majority of the MPs in parliament have a bachelors degree or higher or have had some post-secondary education. Even with the wage gap getting closer to those of non-aboriginals, the only reason why is because they have a bachelors degree or higher (Wilson,19). The absence of help for the aboriginal community with the wage and education gap could be correlated with the small representation in our government. Even though Canada’s population was once all aboriginal people, the misrepresentation of them in parliament could be the reason why there is such a big

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