Aw jeez. What can you say?

I didn't know Canada was all that far backwards. Reading the article, I felt like I was in a time warp looking back into my old Windows 98 computer. This subject matter and point of view has long been put to rest as a silly fashionable non event promoting women out of the kitchen and into the current state of corporate and consumer slavery. It's like some antique piece from Adele Horin, or my old favourite, may her soul rest in peace, Pamela Bone. It's hard to believe this article was written in 2013. It should have been written in the late 90s and published in The Age.

So Canada, with all these genius female politicians, it's no wonder that it's the great world dominant power that it isn't. Despite having over 50% more population than Australia, it can only manage to rank just one place (11th) in front of Australia in world GDP by a slim margin of 14%. But according to Mr Wyeth, it would seem that Canada is leading the world due to embracing 90s era grrrl power.

But hey, you've got to see the humour of it - absolutely fabulous.

Anyway, enough said, but here's an aside to Mr Wyeth - please do bother to get someone reasonably literate to proof read your stuff before submitting it for publication. The article presented reads like it was some first-off draft. Do try to do better sir.

Let's cut to the chase. Let's put aside all the feelgood slogans and look at what are the tangible, practice outcomes that have been produced from having more women in power.

This paragraph sums it up:
"Its relationship with its First Nations is the model for other colonial societies, gay marriage has been legal since 2005, the country has had a number of Sikh MPs (including a Premier of British Columbia, later Federal Health Minister), and reflecting the two main cultural groups of the country, all federal party leaders, and most premiers, are bilingual in English and French."

Basically, there's not much there for the average person on the street. It seems to be more about feelgoodism for minorities. Are hospital waiting lists shorter? Is crime down? Is unemployment down? Can people afford their rent and bills? Is public transport adequate and affordable?

If just having some inner 'buzz' is what it's all about because a minority is now in power, then I'd say that's a good reason to avoid having them in power. However, this isn't about women at all. This is about leftism, not women in power. It's about a political agenda that feels white people (male and heterosexual) must be punished for having too much power in the past. This is the sub-text of the article. Argumentative articles always ague in contradistinction to something. In this case, it is white males and their supposed past sins.

What do these new people in power actually bring to the table that helps the common man? From this article, nothing.

You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

You pay nothing, and you pretty much end up with something akin to the quality of Hasbeen's comments.

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I was once acquainted with a woman who briefly led one of Canada's major parties.

She resigned because of the "men's club" mentality.

Maybe things are changing.

'While countries like Canada and Australia are generally free of overt corruption, women in power are generally seen to be less corruptible and more honest than men. '

Our current Government totally blows this myth unless naivity is an excuse.

Hi Grant,

The name Wyeth sounds a bit Welsh?

Perhaps the British/Canadian public is a little more malleable than the Ozzies and don’t require cognitive skills to interpret the “Emily’s List” politics you have presented. Ozzies are well tuned to the vagaries of tokenistic representation in politics.

Ice hockey, maple syrup and fishing in BC are great, but the Canadian “center left” of the “left of centre” politics has little appeal here, Melbourne accepted of course, until September 14 that is.

It is to be hoped that your “Enron post bankruptcy glow-in-the-dark yo yo” can provide you with some enlightenment, at least without the spin.

You must think that the poor “illiterates” in the colonies will swallow the intellectual prognostications of the elite from the northern hemisphere. Well I for one have got news for you, this sort of drivel should get you a funded return ticket back to Lesser Britain in the traditional mode of UK immigration transport, a shipping container.

I have always been of the view that Edward I was far too kind to the marauding hordes West of the “Marches”. After all, our own PM is from a few miles up the Neath Valley where there is the small village of Cwmgwrach, which in English translates to "Valley of the Witches".

This is such patronizing incompetence, so sorry Yackydah, but this is infantile socialist nonsense.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch,

Please call again on September 15.