Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Senate

Senate: The letter urges Trudeau to fill all 22 current vacancies with women. "To achieve gender equality as soon as possible, the 22 current vacancies should be filled by women from diverse backgrounds, including Indigenous women, women from minority linguistic, racial and ethnic communities, and others, consistent with the Senate role in minority representation," the letter reads. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seen before the speech from the throne in the Senate. "This would achieve the result of a Senate that is 50 percent female and more representative of Canada, according to Huffington Post Canada. This is an historic opportunity. A letter signed by a broad group of former politicians, academics, businesswomen and other professionals notes that of the 83 sitting Senators, only 30 are women. Future appointees would include both women and men in equal numbers." Signatories include former prime minister Kim Campbell, former Ontario attorney-general Marion Boyd, Pam Palmater, the chair of Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University, and former deputy prime minister Sheila Copps. Senate should reflect Canada "If we want to have a representative Senate, it should reflect the faces of Canada, in all their diversity," she said. Copps told CBC News that when she was in office, the Liberal government exceeded parity in Senate appointments, and there was no shortage of exceptional candidates. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.