Justin Trudeau should make Parliament more diverse

As prime minister, Trudeau has no say where members of other parties sit in the House of Commons. However as party leader he can decide where MPs in his own party sit within the Liberal benches. Trudeau should use his own concept of diversity to make it more prominent in the House of Commons. The Little Potato (a name given to him on his recent trip to China) needs to show his unique understanding of diversity by seating female Liberal MPs on the back rows. Practise what you preach, Justin! Speaking of preaching, Trudeau visited an Ottawa mosque on Monday to mark the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. As is his wont, he just did not go to any mosque. The prime minster went to a gender-segregated mosque that has connections with terrorism. As Anthony Furey wrote in the Toronto Sun, the imam, Samy Metwally, is a member of the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS). IUMS has been banned in the United Arab Emirates because the group was designated as a terror organization a couple of years ago.

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