The women elected include nine with the Progressive Conservative Party, three with the Liberal Party and one each for the People's Alliance and the Green Party. But Lyons said she hopes having more women in government will help change things. Beth Lyons is the executive director of the New Brunswick Women's Council. 7:17Lyons said with 30 per cent of the government MLAs elected being women, it will be interesting to see how that changes things on the government side.."Is it going to result in gender parity in cabinet? Lyons said she hopes more women will be involved at high levels of decision making in such things as the all-party cabinet committee that has been dealing with the pandemic response.

Source: CBC News September 16, 2020 17:26 UTC