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- Title: Visible Minority Candidates and Mps: An Update Based on the 2008 Federal Election (Report)
- Author : Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 352 KB
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While there is an ongoing need to learn more about the position and experience of visible minorities among the federal legislative elite, one reality is very well understood: they remain underrepresented--both as candidates and, more importantly, as MPs. This paper considers the 2008 federal election as an additional observation and testing point. Its specific aim is to determine whether characterizations about the incidence of visible minority MPs based on studies of elections from 1993 to 2006 still apply when this election is taken into account. The article also discusses visible minorities as candidates in that election. This is in keeping with the focus of previous scholarship on candidacy as a necessary condition for entry into the Commons. This entails not only "counting" them but as well examining which parties they ran for and the competitive status of the constituencies that they contested--all of this in an effort to shed some light on the parties' depth of commitment to visible minorities as serious contenders for winning Parliamentary seats. **********