Someone from PCO discussed the potential for setting quotas for candidates but in the next breath talked about the very real problem of placing women in ridings they can't win. If we were going to entertain a discussion about measures that would actually encourage parties to have parity in terms of their candidate slate, what protections could we put in place to ensure there isn't a practice of just putting in placeholder candidates, where they know they're never going to win, to satisfy an artificial requirement?
On June 5th, 2018. See this statement in context.