It's no secret that Canada does pathetically when it comes to electing women. Today, while receiving the EVE award at the Equal Voice/Canadian Club Women in Public Life lunch, Anne McLellan shared why she thinks this is the case. McLellan, a former cabinet minister and deputy PM (and, incidentally, an exit interviewee), is currently on the hook for finding more women candidates to run for her pa... [More]

One of the most common questions I'm asked, maybe because of my own gender, is whether Samara's exit interviews take a particular look at women in politics. The answer is yes and no. Yes, because we are interviewing women (our pool, which draws form those who left public life during or after the last two Parliaments, includes 36 women, or about 26% of our total interviewees). This is a bit high... [More]