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I mean I agree in general, but I don't think we understand the practical difficulties that would follow with a vaguely worded rule like that.
You'd have to have it up to 60% at least I think to allowed for flexibility, otherwise you'd have to have exactly 5050 men and women. And then what about if over 50% are Canadians? Shouldn't they be? Then if you're 5050 men and women but you lose a man, you have to take in a man, you can't take a woman. So then when doing that decision, aren't they practically very explicitly discriminating. Then they also prolly can't be the same as the majority ethnicity. But then again also not the majority religion. And depending on what sort of group you have in there and how you define groups, might be kinda challenging.
I get the issue, and I get trying to fix it, but I don't think the attempts made here today have got anyone closer to that.
I don't see this as rocket science. These are supposed to be people vying for roles in governing the country. If they can't figure this out pretty quickly, they shouldn't be given the responsibility of governance. I mean, to make it simple, they could have just set the rule as a minimum of 50% of votes must come from cis women, non-binary, and trans people. Mission accomplished. It would have been the same rule, but with a framing that is encouraging diversity rather than limiting cis men. Framing it the way they did is like watching them have an easy layup but then tripping on their own shoelaces.
Yeah that is a much better framing.
Unfortunately politicians don't have honesty and the wellbeing of others as incentives.