Over 60 per cent of students in post-secondary education in Canada are women, including over 60 per cent of medical school students and 55 per cent of law students. If disparity of representation is so intolerable, why isn't the federal government mandating gender equity across the board?

And mandating racial representation in STEM will only moderately reduce whites in schools and business. The group it will severely impact is Asians, who are vastly over-represented in those fields. Is that what we really want?