Add Catherine McKenna’s name to the long list of former cabinet ministers who have called Justin Trudeau a phony.

McKenna’s new book, _Run Like a Girl_, describes Trudeau in harsh terms describing him as someone who would talk down to people, and who was mostly interested in things like a gender-balanced cabinet as a way to virtue signal.

“It made it sound like we were there to fill a quota,” McKenna said.

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The fact that it was just virtue signalling by Trudeau was made clear when it was reported shortly after the cabinet was sworn in that five of the 30 cabinet ministers, all women, were junior ministers with lower pay. They were also well down the order of precedence, the list of who is more important in the pecking order and

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