Just when Canadians thought Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could no longer play the “I am a feminist” card anymore, he pulls out the feminist card.
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Not only is Trudeau claiming to be a feminist once again but suggests Americans are misogynistic for not electing a woman president instead of Donald Trump.
Twice. Once with Trump defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016 and again in 2024 by beating Kamala Harris.
Trudeau is not happy about that.
“It shouldn’t be that way. It wasn’t supposed to be that way,” Trudeau said at the Equal Voice Foundation dinner Tuesday in Ottawa.
This was coming on the heels of the battle he’s having with soon-to-be America’s 47th president, who has been calling Trudeau “governor” recently in jest as he teases Canada should become America’s 51st state.
This noted male feminist is noteworthy for firing females. But in his attempt to cling to power, Trudeau is going back to strategies that have worked for him to gain the female vote.
“We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult sometimes, march towards progress and yet, just a few weeks ago, the United States voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president,” Trudeau lamented.
Oops. This shot back missed its mark.
What Trudeau doesn’t mention is that Canada has never elected a woman prime minister either. And the Liberal Party he leads has never had a female leader.
Or that no prime minister has ever been more accused of mistreating women as he has been.
Also, as Bryan Passifiume, Warren Kinsella and Brian Lilley have all reported, Trudeau and his finance minister are at odds over the $250 assistance cheques. You can cut the tension between them with a knife as people speculate that Chrystia Freeland could be the next female thrown overboard.
Seems people are catching on. As Passifiume reports from Ottawa for the second day in a row Wednesday, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre in Question Period ridiculed the prime minister for being a “fake feminist.”
Of course, when it comes to Trudeau, the public don’t always fully know what’s going on behind the scenes. His 2023 split from wife Sophie after 18 years is an example in that they had separated before the public was fully aware of it.
But what is known is Trudeau is still out pushing the narrative that he’s a girl guy.
“I want you to know that I am, and always will be, a proud feminist,” Trudeau said with a straight face. “You will always have an ally in me and in my government.”
Really!
Tell that to Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former justice minister he fired because she dared to tell him that the SNC-Lavalin criminal charges diversion was not lawful.
Tell that to Dr. Jane Philpott, who was fired for standing up for Wilson-Raybould.
Tell that to former MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes, who said in 2019 that Trudeau was “yelling that I didn’t appreciate him, that he’d given me so much.”
Tell that to Kim Campbell, Canada’s first female prime minister who was not elected to the role after taking over the Progressive Conservative party leadership from Brian Mulroney, but Trudeau forget to mention on Live with Kelly and Ryan in the U.S. in 2017 when he said having a woman as prime minister is “long overdue.”
Tell that to Karen Wang, who was removed from her nomination to run in a by-election against NDP leader Jagmeet Singh after a campaign message reminded constituents she was of Chinese descent, to which Trudeau said, “the statement made by our former candidate in Burnaby South was unacceptable and was not representative of the kinds of politics I put forward,” while not mentioning he didn’t apply that same standard to himself when he wore blackface numerous times and later went surfing instead of attending ceremonies for the first observance of Truth and Reconciliation Day.
Tell that to news reporter Rose Knight, in which Trudeau said of his 2000 apology to her, “in many cases, women experience interactions in professional contexts and other contexts differently than men.”
Tell that to NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau, who said she was elbowed by Trudeau in the House of Commons.
Tell that to the woman kicked out of an event protesting poor drinking water quality at Grassy Narrows First Nation in Ontario who Trudeau mocked by saying, “Thank you very much for your donation tonight. I really appreciate it.”
Is this guy a supporter of women who sets an example for Americans who rejected female presidential candidates, or just one giant hypocrite?
What he is right now is in full election mode and trying to sell women he’s in their corner.
“Everywhere, women’s rights and women’s progress is under attack. Overtly, and subtly,” Trudeau told the crowd on Tuesday.
Not by him of course.
The big question for women in Canada is: Do you feel lucky to have such a strong “feminist” at the helm?