Alberta awards prize to essay positing sexes unequal, women pick babies over careers

EDMONTON – Alberta’s women’s issues minister is distancing herself from the judging committee that gave a $200 prize to an essay that says the sexes are not equal and women should pick babies over careers.

The essay urges stepped-up procreation to avoid Alberta having to import more foreigners and thereby dilute its culture.

It’s a roundly condemned thesis the Opposition NDP likens to 1930s Nazi Germany urging women to be baby vessels to propagate the Aryan race.

Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk, the associate minister for the status of women, says while the contest was designed to embrace a range of viewpoints, she doesn’t agree with the essay and says it should not have won a prize.