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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a proud feminist. He tells us over and over and over again.

But Canadian women aren’t impressed. A recent Ipsos poll revealed that more women plan to vote for Conservatives than Liberals in the 2019 election.

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It’s a surprising revelation given how much Trudeau goes out of his way to cater to so-called women’s issues.

In 2015, women made up 27% of elected Liberal Members of Parliament, and yet, Trudeau appointed 50% to his cabinet. His reason? “Because it’s 2015,” he said with a smirk.

Stating the current year hardly explains why cabinet appointees should be based on quotas and favouritism rather than qualifications and merit.

If Trudeau had appointed women proportionately based on the pool of MPs, there would be eight female cabinet members, not 15.

That means seven women were promoted based solely on their gender. And a casual observer of federal politics might be able to pick out which seven female cabinet ministers were appointed above their level of competency.