OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says ladies’s rights and girls’s progress is underneath assault, pointing to the current defeat of U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris for instance.
Talking on Tuesday night time at an occasion hosted by the Equal Voice Basis — a company devoted to bettering gender illustration in Canadian politics — Trudeau stated there are regressive forces preventing in opposition to ladies’s progress.
“It should not be that means. It wasn’t imagined to be that means. We have been imagined to be on a gentle, if troublesome typically, march in direction of progress,” Trudeau stated, including he’s a proud feminist and can at all times be an ally.
“And but, only a few weeks in the past, america voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president. In all places, ladies’s rights and girls’s progress is underneath assault. Overtly, and subtly.”
Trudeau’s feedback come a day earlier than he is set to satisfy provincial and territorial premiers to debate Canada’s method to negotiations with the U.S., as Canada faces a menace of a 25 per cent tariff hike from incoming president Donald Trump.
The remarks additionally come hours after Trump taunted Trudeau on social media, referring to the prime minister because the “Governor … of the Nice State of Canada.”
The publish was in reference to a joke Trump cracked at his dinner with Trudeau at his Mar-a-Lago property practically two weeks in the past, the place the president-elect teased that Canada might be a part of the U.S. as its 51st state.
Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman additionally spoke at Tuesday’s occasion.
She stated whereas the room was united within the purpose of seeing extra ladies in elected seats, the nation was divided.
“Most of all, I feel we’re divided as a result of we have positioned variety of thought on the backburner, in trade for lofty platitudes of those that imagine that each one ladies who maintain elected workplace should have the identical view on each single problem,” Lantsman stated.
NDP Chief Jagmeet Singh stated change must occur to cease the recurring of “older white males fail(ing) upwards.”
“If you happen to do not change issues, you are going to have the identical system. And the identical system goes to learn these already in energy,” Singh stated.
“That is with insurance policies. It is by putting in actual, clear methods.”
Inexperienced Celebration Chief Elizabeth Could wrapped the MP speeches commending Trudeau for being the primary Canadian prime minister to nominate a gender-balanced cupboard, and referred to as on feminine MPs to work collectively throughout get together traces.
“It is necessary that we carry one another up, not tear one another down, and stand collectively arm in arm in solidarity,” Could stated.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Dec. 10, 2024.
The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
fbq(‘observe’, ‘PageView’);
