It was just a few days ago that Justin Trudeau was declaring his regret that Kamala Harris was not elected as president.
”Everywhere women’s rights and women’s progress are under attack,” he said, standing like a proud peacock. “I want you to know I always will be a proud feminist.”
Not so fast Mr. Trudeau.
Considering the “proud feminist” has just thrown his top female minister — Chrystia Freeland — under the bus, I would say he has a very distorted view of feminism.
According to a scathing resignation letter posted on social media, Freeland was informed last Friday that she was to be moved from finance minister, a position she has held for the past four years, to another cabinet post.
Pulling no punches, she declared in the resignation letter that she and Trudeau had been “at odds” over how to handle the prospect of 25% tariffs from the regime of President-elect Donald Trump.
She suggested that “costly political gimmicks” — in particular the now cancelled $250 cheques for all Canadians earning under $150,000 a year — would send the message that the Trudeau government does not understand the “gravity” of the tariff war.
She said her belief is that they need to push back against “America First” economic nationalism with a determined effort to fight for capital, investment and the jobs they bring.
Instead of this push to fight Trump, I think Canada would be far better off if there was an admission that the country’s immigration policy has been an unmitigated disaster and that Canada intends to do better to stem the flow of illegal migrants across the border.
But then that would force Trudeau to admit the flow of migrants has wreaked havoc on Canada, starting with the most recent decision to allow 5,000 Gazans into the country.
That said, it was just desserts to see Freeland demonstrate what we all knew: Our feckless leader is adept at tossing women aside, no matter how loyal they’ve been, if they dare disagree with the Great Feminist and Narcissist.
I get it.
Feminism according to Trudeau means carrying his water, no questions asked, as he trots off to Tofino to surf or takes a southern vacation at one of his elitist friends’ estates.
Indeed Freeland did carry his water for her entire tenure as finance minister, even as Canada’s fiscal fortunes declined and personal debt increased exponentially.
Still I really have very little sympathy for Freeland. I disagreed with everything she stood for and regularly winced at her lack of class on the world stage. Many of her actions were reprehensible.
Trust me, she enjoyed the power of being the PM’s right-hand woman.
In 2020 after Trudeau used the Emergencies Act to end the “Freedom Convoy” protests, Freeland gave Canadian banks the authority to freeze 280 bank accounts of those who participated in the convoy.
Earlier this year, a federal judge found that the use of the Emergencies Act violated Charter rights.
Her self-righteous smugness then and after will never be forgotten.
She did silly press conferences such as the one about grocery rebates at a downtown Toronto convenience when all the price tags behind her were covered.
I will never forget the press conference she did on the day of byelection earlier this year to replace long-time Liberal Carolyn Bennett in my riding of Toronto—St. Paul’s — after she spent weeks shilling for the Liberal candidate and her former chief of staff, Leslie Church.
Desperate to cull the vote and knowing they were going down to defeat in that Liberal stronghold, she called all those who would vote for Conservative Don Stewart, “cold, cruel and small.”
I have a t-shirt commemorating that infamous moment.
Speaking of cold, cruel and small, she did absolutely nothing to stem to rising tide of antisemitism in Canada and in her very own downtown Toronto riding.
She sat silent as the streets were clogged with Hamasniks calling for the destruction of Israel and never once spoke out in support of the Jewish community in her very own riding.
So trust me, I won’t be holding any tag days for Freeland.
Still she did it all for the Great Feminist. When he was done with her, he kicked her to the curb like a used piece of trash.
In typical cowardly fashion, the narcissist has taken and will take no responsibility for the actions she carried out on his behalf.
He has proven yet again that he is a coward – user and the furthest thing from a feminist. Nope. There’s no doubt in my mind our PM is a misogynist.
