PHOTOS: Justin Trudeau, back in 2015 before he was prime minister, promising Canadians real change, including electoral reform, if we gave him the chance. We gave him the chance. Below: Opposition Conservative interim Leader Rona Ambrose (CBC Photo) an…
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Montreal Simon: The Disgusting Con War On Women Continues
One of the worst things about about our fallen king Stephen Harper, was the way he treated women.The very first thing he did when he came to power was order that the words "women's rights" be erased from thousands of government documents….
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Night Sophie Grégoire Trudeau Stole the Show
As you know the last month has been a horrible one for Sophie Grégoire Trudeau.Rona Ambrose and her monstrous Cons have gone after her, her children, and her mother in law Margaret.And Sophie even had to lecture her husband about minding his elbows.Bu…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Liberals, the NDP, and the Con Apocalypse
You had to see the look on Rona Ambrose's face today. For she wasn't smiling or giggling like she was after she called Justin Trudeau a woman. She was screaming like a banshee.The Liberals and the NDP have finally agreed on something. The Con…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: What Our Media Doesn’t Understand About Feminism Makes Rona Ambrose Look Enlightened
During last weekend’s Conservative Party convention, interim leader Rona Ambrose suggested that Justin Trudeau was not our first “female” Prime Minister, but that that distinction went to Kim Campbell.
It was met with a round of applause, resonating with the conservative crowd, but not so much with the Canadian public, who saw it as just another opposition cheap shot, born of envy.
She would later deny she said it, or claim that her comment was misinterpreted, but we’ve seen the video. There’s no backing out now.
However, her closing remark is even more telling. “So who’s the feminist now!?” Certainly not Rona Ambrose, because you don’t have to be a female to be a feminist, any more than you have to be a feminist to be female. Today, it’s about a state of mind.
In fact, for the new generation of millennials, it’s more about sexism in general, not just women’s rights, which they already enjoy. Income inequality is still an issue, but they will find the solution, and they will do it because it just makes sense.
Looking at the U.S. Primaries, when the country seems poised to elect their first woman president, it should not be such a shock to anyone that the majority of young women plan to vote for Bernie Sanders, rather than Hillary Clinton. They don’t care about gender, but that Sanders has a better understanding of the problems that impact their lives, while Clinton represents “the establishment.”
In Ambrose’s speech, she lauded previous women Conservative trail blazers (none of whom belonged to her party which was formed in 2003). However, to millennials, these names or their accomplishments would mean little. They don’t have to look to female leaders of the past. They see female leaders everyday, and that’s a good thing. It means that women of my generation have done our jobs.
What they heard from Ambrose would sound like words from the parents in the Peanuts cartoon: “mwa-mwa-mwa”
This is what the opposition and indeed the Canadian media, don’t understand about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He is the epitome of the modern feminist. You don’t have to be macho to be masculine, but you can be. You don’t have to be a female to be a feminist, but you can be. It’s all about equality and doing what’s best for you.
In the United States millennials now outnumber baby boomers, and in Canada, they now represent the majority in the workplace.
The media and politicians, must adapt to this new reality or step aside. Of course Trudeau won the “elbowgate” debate. He was having “a dad moment”. Young parents could relate. But modern feminists could not relate to the aftermath.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau came along at the right time, as we baby boomers were coming of age. We were also anti-establishment and viewed his antics through a different lens than the media and his political opponents. The same is happening today with his son.
At the Conservative convention they have now embraced the baby boomer generation, even quoting PET’s famous remarks about staying out of the bedrooms, but it’s half a century too late. We’ve moved on.
Our children and grandchildren did not grow up with the aproned women chained to the kitchen. They grew up with us.
Now it’s time for the media and members of the opposition parties to just grow up.
Pushed to the Left and Loving It: What Our Media Doesn’t Understand About Feminism Makes Rona Ambrose Look Enlightened
During last weekend’s Conservative Party convention, interim leader Rona Ambrose suggested that Justin Trudeau was not our first “female” Prime Minister, but that that distinction went to Kim Campbell.It was met with a round of applause, resonating with the conservative crowd, but not so much with the Canadian public, who
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: What Our Media Doesn’t Understand About Feminism Makes Rona Ambrose Look Enlightened
During last weekend’s Conservative Party convention, interim leader Rona Ambrose suggested that Justin Trudeau was not our first “female” Prime Minister, but that that distinction went to Kim Campbell.It was met with a round of applause, resonating wit…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Rona Ambrose Ever Apologize for Anything?
I still can't quite believe that Rona Ambrose hasn't apologized for calling Justin Trudeau a woman, or a female prime minister.And is denying ever saying that, even though her little "joke" was caught on tape.But then when I think abo…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons Claim Rona Ambrose Didn’t Call Justin Trudeau a Woman
It was for me the lowest moment of the Con convention. The sight of Rona Ambrose strutting across the stage bragging about her party's feminist credentials.While making a "joke" about Justin Trudeau as the first female Prime Minister.As o…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Convention and the Rapture of Jason Kenney
Lordy. Judging by the reaction of the Cons and their stooges in the media, you'd think the Harper Party's convention was such a great success they had all died and gone to heaven.Or more precisely had risen from the dead, and were now on their…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Rona Ambrose Called Justin Trudeau a Woman
It was a bizarre apparition. At the Con convention yesterday during a discussion on how to modernize the Harper Party, MP Marilyn Gladu came out dressed as the Grim Reaper. In what was apparently an attempt to make fun of the idea that the Cons are d…
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Those crazy federal Tories! Just how dumb do they think we are? (Hint: plenty)
PHOTOS: Rona Ambrose dressed up in hospital scrubs and a stethoscope. Hint: She’s not a real doctor. It’s not clear from this photo, which was published on a CTV site, if the other people are real health care workers or Tory MPs. Below: Your blogge…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why the Cons Can’t Attract Good Leadership Candidates
Despite Rona Ambrose's desperate attempts to try to get more people interested in running for the job of permanent Leader of the Harper Party.So far her campaign has been a dismal failure.For after beating her drum, or kicking up her arms and legs…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Monstrous Ambrose Cons Go After Justin Trudeau’s Mother
I don't know how much lower Rona Ambrose and her monstrous Cons can sink, when they are already wallowing in their own excrement at the bottom of the pit of depravity.But just in the last few days they have managed to crush the dreams of the dying …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michael Harris On Why the Truth In the Duffy Case Must Be Flushed Out
Yesterday I wrote that the RCMP owed Canadians an explanation about the way it handled the Duffy case.Because it has raised some disturbing questions about the relationship between the police and the Harper regime, that strike at the heart of our d…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rona Ambrose and the Kids in the Short Pants
As I've mentioned before, it's one of the enduring mysteries of the post Harper era.Why does Rona Ambrose keep insisting she's the leader of the New/Nouveau Conservative Party?When the talking points and the propaganda that pours out of Con…
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Same old same old at the CPC: The Conservative boss hasn’t gone crazy, and he may even be the same guy …
PHOTOS: The Conservative Party of Canada is still singin’ the same old tune – Stephen Harper’s. (CBC photo.) Below: Senator Mike Duffy, former Conservative cabinet member Jason Kenney, Manitoba Tory MP Candice Bergen, Ontario Court Judge Charles …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How Justin Trudeau Disarmed and Conquered His Enemies
It's a strange world. Yesterday I wrote about how the Con media had underestimated Justin Trudeau.Only to end up badly, or end up looking ridiculous.Now one of those Harper spear chuckers, Michael Den Tandt, has been forced to admit that they …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rona Ambrose Makes a Fool of Herself. Again.
If she wasn't such a heartless Con one might almost feel sorry for Rona Ambrose, because it's all going so horribly wrong.She doesn't know what she's doing, the Harper PMO is jerking her all over the place. Despite her best efforts to …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Shameless Cons and the Phony Deficit Bomb
As you know Jason Kenney is preparing to launch his campaign to try to become the new leader of the Cons.And he is taking a page out of his beloved Benjamin Netanyahu's play book. By trying to scare us into believing that Justin Trudeau's new b…
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