Time for Trudeau the "Feminist" to Take a Good Look in the Mirror

And for once maybe see his sanctimonious hypocrisy and find some humility

So, Justin Trudeau while making a speech at the Equal Voice Foundation gala this week, decided it would be a good time to take a roundabout swipe at US President elect Donald Trump. One has to wonder why he would leap into a verbal foray with Trump when he is so obviously outmatched, is anybody’s guess, but Trudeau’s narcissism knows no bounds. When it comes to witty repartee with both friends and enemies Trump has a proven track record coupled with an innate ability for comedic timing, with his recent performance at the Al Smith Memorial Dinner in New York being a case in point.

But, Trudeau being Trudeau, he just can’t help himself. So in his address to Equal Voice Foundation Trudeau decided to note that, “Just a few weeks ago, the United States voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president.” As I said, it’s kind of a roundabout way of saying he would have preferred that Kamala Harris was the US President rather than Trump — so take that Donald Trump! But really what he did, which he is likely to be too tone deaf and out of touch to realize, is insult to over half of the American voting population by essentially implying they are misogynists because they opted not to vote for the Democratic Party’s DEI candidate, Kamala Harris, and instead gave Trump, an old white man, a historical landslide win. But as I said, Trudeau, being Trudeau… it is par for the course.

Now it is likely Trudeau’s upset over Trump’s latest trolling him about Canada becoming the 51st US state with Trudeau as governor. Trudeau, instead of being insulted and taking offence at being ‘demoted’, should probably consider himself lucky that Trump didn’t really humiliate him by saying his first act as President, after making Canada a state, would be to have Trudeau impeached or recalled as its governor due to gross incompetence and corruption, but I digress.

Trudeau is also probably not happy with how his ‘emergency’ sojourn to Mar-a-Lago to for touchy talks on tariffs, trade and Canada’s lax border security went. He wasn’t feted like the head of a G7 nation, which he likely thought was his due. He wasn’t even invited, as most out of town guests at Mar-a-Lago are, to spend the night as Trump’s guest. And he certainly didn’t have much to say about how the talks with Trump went when he scurried past reporters as he was coming out of the elevator of the unnamed hotel where he spent the night somewhere in Palm Beach.

But to continue on with Trudeau’s speech at the Equal Voice Foundation gala, after lamenting Kamala Harris’s loss and lecturing those misogynistic Americans for missing their chance to elect a woman for president he went on to say, “Everywhere, women’s rights and women’s progress is under attack — overtly and subtly.” But I want you to know that I am and always will be a proud feminist. You will always have an ally in me and in my government.”

Trudeau, as most Canadians know, only too well, has been playing this tired, “I am a feminist card,” trope for the entire nine years he has been Prime Minister. But it’s time Justin took a real good and long look in the mirror before he starts taking swipes at our nearest neighbour and closest ally when it comes to women and him being their ‘feminist’ champion. Usually, when Trudeau looks in the mirror it is likely that he only sees his likeness staring back at him in admiration – but if he really looks more closely he might see what he actually is – a failing and fading bullying tyrant and phony feminist whose virtue signalling hypocrisy no longer plays well – who really, underneath it all, is closet misogynist.

Right out of the gate, upon becoming Prime Minister in 2015, Trudeau went into his virtue signalling mode to cement his image as a progressive feminist by making half of his cabinet choices female. When asked why he made such move by a fawning media, who completely ignored the fact that women only made up less a third of his caucus, he flippantly responded, “because it’s 2015.” However, other than paying lip service to feminism and ensuring women that they will always have access to abortions in Canada, any time they might need one, what other contributions has the ‘feminist Trudeau’ made to ‘further’ feminism?

Well he is on the record giving his full support to trans women – men who think they are women. He maintained in a post on X, on International Women’s Day, no less that: “trans women – are ‘real’ women.” Yet the vast majority of biological women don’t see it that way and would rather they stay out of female-only places such as bathrooms and locker rooms. So, is that a step forward for ‘feminism’ on the part of Trudeau?

He also supports the idea that trans women (biological men) should be able to compete in women’s sports expressing his displeasure with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s enactment of laws to ban trans women from competing in women’s sports in the province.

Trudeau also likes spend a lot of his time with other types of ‘women’ — who co-opt and often make mockery of womanhood — drag queens.

Philpott and Wilson-Raybould with Trudeau

Ask his former, first ever female and indigenous Attorney General and Justice Minister (AG/JM), Jody Wilson-Raybould and his former Health Minister Jane Philpott what they think about Trudeau’s feminist ideals. Both women got a pretty good taste of that when they challenged his authority during what has come to be known as the SNC Lavalan affair and scandal. This occurred in 2019, when Globe and Mail Ottawa Bureau Chief, Robert Fife published a report that Trudeau had been pressuring Wilson-Raybould in her position at AG/JM to give the Liberal-friendly company SNC Lavalan a break from serious criminal charges they were facing for fraud by instructing her Crown prosecutor on the case to offer them instead a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA).

*Under a DPA a Crown prosecutor can agree to defer bringing a criminal prosecution against an organization, individual or company for alleged offences if they agree to take steps to make restitution for the alleged offences, improve its conduct and implement internal controls to avoid repeat offences.

When the story first came to light and Trudeau was asked about it during a news conference on another matter, he denied he had done any such a thing and essentially threw Wilson-Raybould under the bus accusing her of lying. He and his henchman, also known a Trudeau’s Principal Secretary, Gerald Butts, when they realized she was standing her ground wouldn’t bow to their pressure tactics, decided to demote her by shuffling her out of the AG/JM portfolio into a less prestigious cabinet post. This would allow them to appoint a new AG/JM who would be more than happy to do Trudeau’s bidding in the person of David Lamette.

Wilson-Raybould, rather than accepting the position resigned, after which she was summarily booted from Liberal caucus and left to sit in Parliament as an Independent. This led to Health Minister, Dr. Jane Philpot, appalled by Trudeau’s treatment of her colleague and the details of the emerging scandal, resigning from her cabinet post in solidarity with Wilson-Raybould. She too was then unceremoniously kicked out of the Liberal caucus by the feminist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The whole affair was brought to the federal Ethics Commissioner who ruled that Trudeau had indeed violated ethics law by pressing Wilson-Raybould to offer SNC Lavalin a DPA to avoid criminal prosecution. No apology to Wilson-Raybould was ever forthcoming from Trudeau.

A year prior to the SNC Lavalin scandal, details surfaced of Trudeau having groped a young female reporter way back in 2000 in Creston B.C. at a funding raising event for the Avalanche Foundation. The incident initially came to light back in 2000, when the reporter, Rose Knight, wrote an unsigned editorial about her encounter with Trudeau in the Creston Valley Advance, where she accused him of groping and inappropriately handling her in a way in which she felt blatantly disrespected. The editorial further reported that Trudeau did offer an apology of sorts the next day saying that he was sorry and that “If I had known you were reporting for a national paper* I never would have been so forward.”

*Trudeau apologized after he discovered Knight was with the National Post newspaper.

Trudeau was confronted about his actions when this story resurfaced in 2018, after just months earlier he had turfed two members out of his caucus amid yet to be proven allegations of sexual harassment. He had also during this controversy told CBC news that women who come forward with complaints of sexual assault and harassment must be supported and believed.

Yet, Trudeau didn’t seem to apply that advice to himself when asked about the Knight’s allegations against him. In fact he had quite a different take on the entire incident. He told the awaiting media that after much ‘reflection’: “I’m confident I didn't act inappropriately, but I think the essence of this is people can experience interactions differently … people in many cases women experience interactions in a professional context different than men.” The woman, Rose Knight, never followed up to respond to Trudeau’s lame response, wanting essentially to just put the old incident to bed for good.

Then there is the story of Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes, who served as Parliamentary Secretary to Trudeau from when he first became the Prime Minister and up until January of 2017. She was then appointed to the position of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development, until she was shuffled to the backbenches in 2018

On March 20, 2019, Caesar-Chavannes personally informed Trudeau that she would not be seeking re-election and was resigning as a member of the Liberal caucus to serve as an independent for the remainder of her parliamentary term. She didn’t expect the reaction she got from him later describing that exchange to the Globe and Mail saying he became hostile towards her. "He was yelling. He was yelling that I didn't appreciate him, that he'd given me so much."

As Caesar-Chavannes’s news of her departure coincided with the resignation of Wilson Raybould she said he appeared more concerned about the optics, rather than why she was leaving, telling her that, “He couldn’t have two powerful women of colour leave at the same time.”

She has since maintained in her book, Can You Hear Me Now, that ongoing conflicts with the Prime Minister played a key role in to her decision to leave the Liberal party and politics. She described those conflicts as having tones of racism, microaggressions and tokenism. That tokenism included being told to turn up for photo ops to commemorate such events a Black History Month. She said she quickly started to notice an uncomfortable pattern, “I was invited to three events that were Black-focused, after that, I was done.” So Caesar-Chavannes has moved on and written her book and recently sat down with Jordan Peterson at the Daily Wire to recount her experience with the ‘feminist’ Trudeau.

It is possible that Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland may be the next female in the ‘feminist’ Trudeau’s cross-hairs. Word has emerged from senior Liberal Party officials that Freeland and Trudeau are at odds over major spending decisions. A major sticking point is the $6.28 billion GST holiday and the proposed $250 cheques to go out Canadians earning under $150,000 a year. Insiders say Trudeau championed both initiatives over objections from Freeland and finance ministry officials. There are rumours afoot that Trudeau may be looking to appoint former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney to the post of Finance Minister who seems to be more in line with Trudeau’s commitment to big spending. While Carney is not an elected Member of Parliament, there are mechanisms that can allow such appointments to be made. So Freeland, who has been steadfastly loyal to Trudeau, through thick and thin, may find herself on the chopping block, for challenging or opposing Trudeau’s policies, visions, or opinion.

So, given Trudeau’s habit of throwing women who oppose or challenge him under the bus and seeming to support trans women’s rights over those of biological woman it’s bit rich for him to get up on stage and tell women what a proud feminist he is and that women “will always have an ally in me and my government.” And then, on top of that to have the gall to chastise Americans and imply they are misogynists because they didn’t vote for the woman candidate in their last election.

But that is Trudeau in a nutshell. He is so blind to his own hypocrisy it is almost breathtaking. A man who professed he was not a racist and was quick to call anyone else a racist if they challenged his open door immigration policies, was caught wearing black face, not once, not twice, but three times, and admitting he wasn’t sure if it was just three times. The man who has imposed backbreaking carbon tax and other economically destructive policies on Canadians with his obsession on climate change has probably spewed more carbon into the atmosphere jetting around the world on vacation or to yet another climate change summit, than that of ten or twenty Canadian families over their entire lifetimes. The man who promised, during his initial election campaign, that his government would be the most transparent and honest government Canadians have ever seen will now go down in history as one of the most secretive and corrupt governments Canadians have ever seen.

If Trudeau does take an honest look in the mirror he may find what the queen in Snow White found….. that he is not the fairest in the land when it comes to his ‘feminism’, and his treatment of women, when it comes to his leadership and when it really comes down to it, his treatment of Canadians.