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So, we now have a gender equal federal cabinet. It’s time we support equality for males.

An equally funded Status of Men Canada and dedicated Men’s Cabinet Minister may be a start. Females have had this representation since the early 1970s.

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Males need dedicated representation because Canada has a system built on lobbying, power, deception and discrimination, not equality and human rights for all regardless of gender. In fact, males have been willfully ignored.

The full palette of male issues is too long to list here, but here are a few:

Scientific studies have found men experience domestic violence at similar rates to women; six per cent of men and seven per cent of women in a one study. Yet, there are no government-funded shelters dedicated to men and their children. But there are many for women.

Males are told they don’t need protecting because they can protect themselves. Yet no male receives training on use of force or the applicable laws. If a male uses force, he’s vilified as violent.