“There’s a misconception that politics is a level playing field; it absolutely is not a level playing field,” she [Tolley] said.
“If you are a racialized candidate trying to break through, you face tougher hurdles, you face higher hurdles”
“Can we really claim to be an equal society if there are large swaths of the population, that no matter how hard they try, they just simply don’t find themselves in elected positions?”
Dr. Erin Tolley is the Canada Research Chair in Gender, Race, and Inclusive Politics and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science.