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Immigration Minister: Greater Vancouver

Jason Kenney Dept: In a tweet during a recent campaign visit to B.C., Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said the five candidates in Vancouver and two-thirds of candidates in the greater Vancouver region are women, according to The Star. The complete domination of women Conservative candidates is an anomaly, said Nancy Peckford, executive director of Equal Voice, a multi-partisan organization based in Ottawa that lobbies to get more women elected in politics and vANCOUVER The Conservatives are touting that all the candidates in their Vancouver ridings are women, a claim that no other party can make about their candidates in a major urban centre. All were selected with no quotas set by the party, he added. As reported in the news.
@t domination of women, vancouver region