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Canadian PM’s “Elbowgate” Scandal Reveals Racism of Leftist Feminists

May 22, 2016 2:11 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Recently, the “Elbowgate” political scandal has been the news buzz in Canada, revolving around Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s so-called temper tantrum in the House of Commons. Leftists (and even some right-wingers) have fingered Trudeau as an abuser against women and as having an out-of-control temper because of an incident in the House of Commons in which he pushed past a group of disruptive New Democratic Party representatives and inadvertently elbowed a woman while doing so. This led to an apology by Trudeau under public pressure, and he demonstrated fine sportsmanship in doing so. The incident cut across party lines. I have been critical of Trudeau in the past, and there is much to criticize, but this is ridiculous. I wrote on my Facebook page:

Enough is enough. I applaud Trudeau. This cuts through partisan lines. If only these so-called feminist activists from the NDP could show 10% of that concern for the genuine abuse women of Islamist households face.

I was met with accolades, but also an opponent who wrote:

No way, he angrily stomped across the floor, manhandled a Conservative MP [a false charge, by the way] and elbowed a woman…this is called workplace abuse. He should have been thrown out of the House of Commons…

In a like-minded article, Trudeau even gets compared by a well-known CBC writer to former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, who was known for his foul temper. Says the CBC’s Neil Macdonald: “Jean Chrétien once lost his temper and grabbed a protester by the throat, something that almost certainly would have landed a non-prime minister before a judge.” One need only ask the question: why even bring up Chrétien in this context? And what does Justin Trudeau’s black belt in Judo — also mentioned in Macdonald’s article — have to do with “Elbowgate”? One positive aspect of all this is that the leftist media is showing impartiality by attacking someone who is considered to be one of its own; yet the silence by the same media is deafening with regard to the context of the “Elbowgate” incident, which is a legitimate and indeed paramount aspect of this issue.

The West is legitimately a watchdog on matters of human rights, which encompasses religious rights and the rights of women, but in this context the media falls dramatically short in the hoopla it has stirred up against Trudeau over “Elbowgate”. While the leftist mass media has gone ape over Justin Trudeau’s so-called “abuse” of a woman, it has been unable to adequately prove intent. In watching the video, it appears that Trudeau did indeed lose his temper with the NDP shenanigans in blocking Conservative MP’s from passing by. The video reveals Trudeau “trying to pull Conservative whip Gord Brown through a crowd of MPs….who were milling about in hopes of delaying a vote related to the bill on doctor-assisted dying, C-14.” Yet the elbowing is unintentional; an extremely minor incident.

And while they’re enraged over this, why do these far leftist feminists and their allies — who appear to be so concerned about the well-being of women — not concern themselves with the genuine abuse of women in Islamic states? This is not to say that we should not concern ourselves with genuine abuse of women in our own culture. We pride ourselves on human rights, but where is the outcry for those “other women” living abroad?

Leftists are quick to cry racism and abuse of women and to buy into the “Islamophobia” victimology, yet these so-called proponents of human rights and women’s rights care little — as they demonstrate by their own actions — about women in Islamic countries, which suggests a troubling brand of racism, as they show that they have little to no concern for the fact that these foreign women are subject to heinous forms of abuse, such as getting acid thrown in their faces for attempting to get an education; honor killings; female genital mutilation; and other forms of subjugation. Also, how many of these leftist feminists would be personally accepting of a head-to-toe face covering in scorching summer heat because men said they have to be covered? It is common knowledge in our culture that abused women echo the voice of the abuser: they speak when told; they are forced to believe what they are told; they exemplify what is permitted in the eyes of the abuser; they are happy if the abuser tells them they are happy, etc. Leftist feminists are manifesting the same traits by their silence over the abuse of Muslim women.

It is unconscionable that leftist feminists use a different standard for themselves than for those brown women abroad. They’re displaying racism and supremacism in their dichotomy of standards. Low expectations are the ultimate in racism. One has no expectations of dogs and other animals, so what message are they sending to abusers in Islamic states and to male proponents of anti-women ideology? Why are abuse and the subjugation of foreign women accepted among leftist “feminists”? Also unconscionable is their lack of concern for Christians and Yazidis abroad, among others. One 20-year-old woman states:

We were raped up to five times a day….One girl went to the bathroom and slit her wrist. When she did not die she cut her throat. The guards came to me and said you come and identify her – she’s your friend. I could not recognise her. There was so much blood on her face. The guards wrapped her in a blanket and threw her out with the rubbish.

Instead, they attack Trudeau because he inadvertently pushed through a crowd of hooligan NDPers, and the incident is referred to as an attack on women. We do and should have higher standards under our Western democracy in how we treat women; but until far-leftists become thinking citizens who are concerned about the human rights of all people, they display their own lack of genuine concern for those rights, and that threatens our own democracies. This is because Western states currently have immigration policies that allow people from societies that do not espouse our concepts of human rights to flood in. By not applying equal standards of human rights, which is an indication of their racism, leftists undercut the values of our own country and doom us to becoming dhimmis under the hegemony of Islam law, as we demonstrate our Western ignorance and fear to call out gender, religious and racial apartheid in the face of an Islamic agenda. There is an aggressive Islamic Project and a drive — both by stealthy and overtly hostile means — to conquer us for the Dar al Islam (House of Islam). Until that conquest, we are regarded as part of the Dar al Harb (House of War), and our double standards and ignorance condemn us to defeat.

Christine Williams is an award-winning Canadian journalist.

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  1. mortimer says

    May 22, 2016 at 2:22 pm

    Feminists point the finger at a white male who accidentally bumped into a white woman, but they ignore and are silent about 500 million Muslim women who are virtual slaves beaten daily with the sacred support of the Koran and hadiths.

    “And take in your hand a green branch and beat her with It and do not break your oath; surely We found him patient; most excellent the servant! Surely he was frequent in returning (to Allah).” Qur’an (38:44)

    Abu Dawud (2142) – “The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife.”

    Bukhari (72:715) – A woman came to Muhammad and begged her to stop her husband from beating her. Her skin was bruised so badly that she it is described as being “greener” than the green veil she was wearing. Muhammad did not admonish her husband, but instead ordered her to return to him and submit to his sexual desires.

    When Muslims treat women savagely, Western cultural Marxist women pretend they see nothing…they help the perpetrators.

  2. mortimer says

    May 22, 2016 at 2:36 pm

    Christine Williams’s article is more about the moral failure of feminism to protect non-European women.

    She is brilliant: “Low expectations are the ultimate in racism.”

    Western Feminists are actually saying that brown men needn’t live up to the same standards as Europeans…because, you know, they’re not civilized.

    Sharia law evidence gives Muslim males a get out of jail card in the matter of rape, so they take rape lightly. The Feminists need to spend the hundreds of hours studying Sharia law so they can find out how to protect women.

    • Bob says

      May 23, 2016 at 9:44 am

      Oddly enough, “brown men needn’t live up to the same standards as the white man…” is close to Maggie Thatcher’s words to South Africa during the apartheid times!

  3. Mark says

    May 22, 2016 at 2:41 pm

    This kid is bad news for the world

    • Jay Boo says

      May 23, 2016 at 1:11 am

      Nothing worse than a neat hair-cut and a hairy neck.

      His haircut should begin at his adams apple and proceed from ear to ear.

      Just kidding.

  4. Angemon says

    May 22, 2016 at 3:20 pm

    Instead, they attack Trudeau because he inadvertently pushed through a crowd of hooligan NDPers, and the incident is referred to as an attack on women.

    That’s regular third-wave “feminism”. Trudeau received accolades with his “parity cabinet”, but when push came to shove, he was attacked like any other “misogynist”. What did his appeasement got him? To be eaten last.

  5. What is going on... says

    May 22, 2016 at 3:28 pm

    Though I do not agree with the PM in most of his decisions, in this case I was actually cheering for him. The NDPs showed such a low standard of honour and constraint it was disgusting. Mr. Mulcair’s behaviour was shocking, but what really was annoying was the behaviour of the women who got elbowed. In her speech to the House she said that she missed voting because she was so traumatised. Traumatised by being accidentally elbowed? She completely failed in her duty to the Canadian people! Since when should a person, who has been elected by people to represent them, run away from her duty of voting to just cast shame on the PM? It makes me sick.

  6. Wellington says

    May 22, 2016 at 5:16 pm

    This will change nothing. Western feminists will continue to see the specks of dust in the eyes of Western males while completely ignoring the beams in the eyes of mucho numbers of Muslim males. Can’t fix stupid.

    • Keys says

      May 22, 2016 at 9:56 pm

      Wellington, most of them (Western feminists) know what you say is poignantly true, but their pride or job security “trumps” the truth, because they are, for now, safe only because of Western males.

  7. WILLIAM M MILANO says

    May 22, 2016 at 5:16 pm

    This isn’t Feminism it is Female Supremacy which often pretends as Feminism. The racism thing is funny.

    • Wellington says

      May 23, 2016 at 12:32 pm

      The word “feminism” has been hijacked by leftist extremists and thus it no longer has any meaning which is a positive, rather like the word “dictator” in Roman history being originally a positive term, instituted in the early years of the Roman Republic for emergency situations whereby the dictator had all power for up to six months and then relinquished it after the emergency was over. Later Roman dictators though gave the term a bad name and it has remained a negative term ever since. Ditto for the word “tyrant” in ancient Greek history.

  8. Wellington says

    May 22, 2016 at 6:09 pm

    I guess you could say that when dealing with the NDP you are guaranteed to have clowns to the left of you and jokers (jokerettes?) to the right.

  9. Guest says

    May 22, 2016 at 7:11 pm

    It’s not racism it’s Hypocrisy.

  10. linnte says

    May 22, 2016 at 7:32 pm

    Gee, I’m afraid to comment on the article for fear I might be eaten alive. Hahahahahaha! Or elbowed! ?

  11. Saleem Smith says

    May 23, 2016 at 12:58 am

    The Quran says that Muhammad the prophet of Islam is the model man for Muslims to follow.
    Muhammad was a rapist according to Islam’s most sacred texts. When the devout Muslims of ISIS and Al-Qaeda etc. enslave infidel women and rape them, they are undoubtedly following the example of the prophet of Islam. We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that Mohammedanism is a true lie.

    Qur’an 033:021:

    There is a good example in God’s apostle for those of you who look to God and the Last Day and remember God always.

    >>>>>

    Muhammad the Prophet of Islam was a Rapist:

    The practice of raping war captives was practiced by Islam’s very own prophet Muhammad, in his life. On two occasions, he married (for the sake of sexual gratification only) war captives and raped them. Those victims were namely Safiyah and Juwairiyah.

    Safiyah:

    Safiyah the daughter of Huayy was the wife of a Jewish Rabbi named Kinana. When Muhammad conquered the Jewish village of Khaibar, he tortured and killed the Rabbi and took captive his wife. Sahih Hadith in Bukhari testify to this fact:

    Narrated ‘Abdul ‘Aziz: Anas said, ‘When Allah’s Apostle invaded Khaibar, we offered the Fajr prayer there yearly in the morning) when it was still dark. The Prophet rode and Abu Talha rode too and I was riding behind Abu Talha. The Prophet passed through the lane of Khaibar quickly and my knee was touching the thigh of the Prophet . He uncovered his thigh and I saw the whiteness of the thigh of the Prophet. When he entered the town, he said, ‘Allahu Akbar! Khaibar is ruined. Whenever we approach near a (hostile) nation (to fight) then evil will be the morning of those who have been warned.’ He repeated this thrice. The people came out for their jobs and some of them said, ‘Muhammad (has come).’ (Some of our companions added, “With his army.”) We conquered Khaibar, took the captives, and the booty was collected. Dihya came and said, ‘O Allah’s Prophet! Give me a slave girl from the captives.’ The Prophet said, ‘Go and take any slave girl.’ He took Safiya bint Huyai. A man came to the Prophet and said, ‘O Allah’s Apostles! You gave Safiya bint Huyai to Dihya and she is the chief mistress of the tribes of Quraiza and An-Nadir and she befits none but you.’ So the Prophet said, ‘Bring him along with her.’ So Dihya came with her and when the Prophet saw her, he said to Dihya, ‘Take any slave girl other than her from the captives.’ Anas added: The Prophet then manumitted her and married her.” Thabit asked Anas, “O Abu Hamza! What did the Prophet pay her (as Mahr)?” He said, “Her self was her Mahr for he manumitted her and then married her.” Anas added, “While on the way, Um Sulaim dressed her for marriage (ceremony) and at night she sent her as a bride to the Prophet . So the Prophet was a bridegroom and he said, ‘Whoever has anything (food) should bring it.’ He spread out a leather sheet (for the food) and some brought dates and others cooking butter. (I think he (Anas) mentioned As-SawTq). So they prepared a dish of Hais (a kind of meal). And that was Walima (the marriage banquet) of Allah’s Apostle .”

    Juwairiyah:

    The following hadith from Sunan Abu Dawud bears out how Muhammad obtained Juwairiyah, a beautiful woman of a tribe called Banu Mustaliq. Muhammad was attacking the tribe without warning and conquering them:

    Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu’minin: Juwayriyyah, daughter of al-Harith ibn al-Mustaliq, fell to the lot of Thabit ibn Qays ibn Shammas, or to her cousin. She entered into an agreement to purchase her freedom. She was a very beautiful woman, most attractive to the eye. Aisha said: She then came to the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) asking him for the purchase of her freedom. When she was standing at the door, I looked at her with disapproval. I realised that the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) would look at her in the same way that I had looked. She said: Apostle of Allah, I am Juwayriyyah, daughter of al-Harith, and something has happened to me, which is not hidden from you. I have fallen to the lot of Thabit ibn Qays ibn Shammas, and I have entered into an agreement to purchase of my freedom. I have come to you to seek assistance for the purchase of my freedom. The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) said: Are you inclined to that which is better? She asked: What is that, Apostle of Allah? He replied: I shall pay the price of your freedom on your behalf, and I shall marry you. She said: I shall do this. She (Aisha) said: The people then heard that the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) had married Juwayriyyah. They released the captives in their possession and set them free, and said: They are the relatives of the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) by marriage. We did not see any woman greater than Juwayriyyah who brought blessings to her people. One hundred families of Banu al-Mustaliq were set free on account of her

    The following hadith from Sahih Bukhari is evidentiary to the above:

    Narrated Ibn Aun: I wrote a letter to Nafi and Nafi wrote in reply to my letter that the Prophet had suddenly attacked Bani Mustaliq without warning while they were heedless and their cattle were being watered at the places of water. Their fighting men were killed and their women and children were taken as captives; the Prophet got Juwairiya on that day. Nafi said that Ibn ‘Umar had told him the above narration and that Ibn ‘Umar was in that army.

    https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Rape_in_Islam

    • Jay Boo says

      May 23, 2016 at 2:02 am

      Islam is clearly a religious fiction —
      and a disgraceful horror reality.
      Nothing compassionate or merciful.
      A disgrace to human dignity
      ———————————————

      Here is another story.
      It involves real compassion.
      Nothing to do with Islam of course.
      Islam is all about hate.
      This story is about love.

      It is also a fiction, I presume.
      And It is very sad but in contrast it is about love.
      —————————————————

      “Now Watch as Belinda Unmakes the World”
      by Lynette Mejía
      By Dario Bijelac
      She begins with the grass that runs along the border near the bottom. She’s careful, as the tea-stained linen cloth is beginning to fray from the hundreds of times she’s pulled it in and out of the canvas shopping bag where she keeps her sewing. She pulls each stitch carefully, her movements a kind of mirror to the rhythm she’s developed over the months of creating the design. One after another, the tiny x’s are removed, row by row. Row by row the meadow disappears.
      “You need something to keep you busy,” the nurse said, her eyes kind and full of sympathy. Belinda didn’t want her sympathy, but she bought the kit anyway. It beat staring out the window of the hospital room, watching the same oak tree day after day, its grey-green leaves shivering in the endless wind. It beat staring at her daughter on the bed.
      Beneath the stitches the cloth is clean, protected from the oil on her fingers, the worrying that worked to unravel the parts not protected by the embroidery hoop. A Beautiful Day was the name of the design, and Belinda has worked to make it so. Stitch the sunshine and it will come. Sometimes weeks went by when the bag sat still, when Emmy was allowed to come home, don a baseball cap, and play in the sun of her own back yard. Then would come the pain, and the fever, and Belinda would grab the sewing bag on the way out the door to the hospital.
      Next come the flowers, the scattered clumps of blue and orange with tiny yellow centers. Belinda snips the knots along the back, pulling out the petals one after another, shearing leaves from stems, then stems to nothingness. It’s a ritual, this act of undoing. Funny, she thinks, how the unmaking of a thing takes so much less time than its creation.
      From the direction of the bed comes a stirring and a soft moan. Belinda looks over, still somehow expecting the thin, emaciated form to sit up and ask for ice cream, but there are only the long, deep breaths of medicated sleep. She wants with all her heart to shake her child, to wake her up and look into her eyes for each and every ticking second she has left, but becoming a mother has always meant putting someone else’s needs before your own. And what Emmy needs now is respite, however brief. Belinda looks down, and pulls out another stitch.
      The grief counselor at the hospital checks in from time to time, frowning but saying nothing as she takes in Belinda’s work. “Forgive yourself,” she is fond of saying. “Forgive yourself for being angry.” But the thing inside Belinda doesn’t feel like anger; it feels like a vacuum, a great blind nothingness that threatens to swallow them both. How could she carry the power within her to weave together a human being, to knit cells and organs into a living, breathing system, and yet not have the power to stop those same cells from consuming what she’d made? She mumbles something vaguely acceptable to the grief counselor, and removes another stitch.
      The great tree standing upon the bright green hill comes next, first the roots, then trunk with the small knot that Emmy always thought was just the right size for a squirrel. Outside the wind scrapes branches against the glass. It’s an irritating sound, and in her annoyance, Belinda rips the threads faster until the tree outside is silent. Then go the leaves, one at a time, each separate from the others. This had been the part that had taken the longest: single, independent x’s that had to be severed and tied off individually. Weeks and weeks Belinda had spent, drawing the threads through the fabric once, twice, then cutting and tying and starting again. The unmaking is far quicker, a few minutes of shearing off the firmament of knots on the back followed by pinching off the green scraps on the front. In minutes, the tree is gone, and there is no sound outside now but the wind.
      The breaths on the bed grow more shallow, and Belinda imagines Emmy as a bird, skimming the tops of trees or the crests of waves in the ocean. Weightless, only connected to the ground as an afterthought.
      The last to go is the sky; a scattering of blue stitches meant to give the suggestion of an atmosphere, punctuated by small, puffy white clouds. Three birds made from black thread fly in running stitches. Last of all is the sun, a swirl of oranges and yellows surrounded by wedge-shaped rays. The winking eye and upturned mouth are the final cuts, the last pieces of thread dumped into the sanitary metal trashcan at Belinda’s feet.
      On the bed Emmy’s breaths have become so faint that it’s hard to hear them at all now. Belinda drops the empty and frayed linen cloth into the trash can and lies down next to her daughter, holding her small, cold hands in her own.
      Outside, the world goes dark.

      http://flashfictiononline.com/main/article/now-watch-belinda-unmakes-world/

  12. Jay Boo says

    May 23, 2016 at 2:16 am

    JW
    Tip of the Day

    When working as a magician’s assistant for a Muslim magician —
    — never accept any offer to do the:
    (Saw the Assistant in Half) trick.

    IMHO

  13. Mirren10 says

    May 23, 2016 at 4:52 am

    Good Lord, what a storm in a teacup !

    How I *loathe* these so-called ‘feminists’. She was ‘traumatised’ was she ? Ridiculous bint. As Wellington says, you can’t fix stupid. 🙂

    • Mirren10 says

      May 23, 2016 at 6:59 am

      She’d probably have been even *more* ‘traumatised’ if Trudeau had opened a door for her. 🙂

  14. UNCLE VLADDI says

    May 23, 2016 at 5:09 am

    Justin Turdeau is a nannystater elitist who treats everyone else like children.

    But if it weren’t for his famous dad’s surname, he’d only remain qualified to be the pot-smoking part-time substitute drama teacher he was before becoming our Dear Leader.

    It won’t surprise me to learn he’s manhandled some of his own high-school students, too.

  15. Carmel says

    May 23, 2016 at 5:21 am

    It is not the prime minister job to get out of his seat, loose his temper, walk the aisle furiously , manhandled anyone , elbow a woman or not , say : «Get out of my fucking way » and go back to his seat with the same outrageous energy .

    As one said : « Happy are we ,Canada , to not have the nuclear weapon. What would he do with if he lost his temper ( with Trump) ?

    For a while now Trudeau has make several mistakes. Invited by Obama for a state dinner at Washington, he went there with his wife , his three children , his mother (???) , his mother-in -law (???) , father-en -law (????) , liberal fund raisers , but there was no place or money so natural ressources minister could get on the plane to be at the official dinner in a time both countries have pipeline issues. Curious .

    While campaigning last fall, Trudeau said he was a feminist. Now that he said he noticed he accidently hurt someone but didn’t even try to look who it was , he made himself a target for social irony.
    Then , his wife, the one who sing in publlic when not asked , complain about the water in the official residence as a little Marie -Antoinette, gave an interview to a Québec City newspaper complaining she had not enough people around her and that she would need « a team » to be at the height . She already have two nurses for the child , a chauffeur, a cook and a house staff for the house holding , a secretary , at least . Maybe I forget someone .

    She was not elected . Her husband was. And , all what she is doing is to do publicity around her man so he can get re-elected next time : Paris -Match cover, CBC tv shows, speaking at charity social activity is not a mandatory neccesity and is for the benefit of the liberal party not for the benefit of Canadians . Get payed by the one you work for , Mrs.

    So , if 5 stars hotels, chef meals, government plane , limo with chauffeur and all this stuff is too hard for her , maybe she could go to sweat shops in eastern Toronto or else to see what hard living is .

    • robert says

      May 23, 2016 at 11:52 am

      boo hoo hoo-this is what happens to people who think they are privileged and entitled. they do not care that many families are struggling and finding it hard to survive in canada right now. poor little thing. if the the trudeaus need more help let them have a few syrian muslims move in with them and do their menial chores for room and board.

  16. MT says

    May 23, 2016 at 7:32 am

    The real scandal is that the PM had to step in to stop this childish nonsense taking place on the Parliament floor as a Whip tries to vote and is purposefully blocked multiple times by opponents. They play dirty and the PM had to act like Daddy and step in! These childish fools should be ashamed of themselves but no, they’ll try and spin things to cover up their own idiot behavior.

    • Lioness says

      May 23, 2016 at 11:47 am

      You cannot spin anything if the PM gets up, swears and shoves MPs around. It would not be tolerated in a work place anywhere. If Harper did that there would have been calls for his resignation. I wonder if he will lose his temper dealing with Putin. He will not fare very well from such an encounter.

  17. Harry ko says

    May 23, 2016 at 8:31 am

    Christine’s article is spot on .Our leader was born with a silver spoon and is a mosque going Muslim
    loving jerk .His dad was a dictator and Trudeau the younger is trying to follow in dad’s footsteps .

  18. Angemon says

    May 23, 2016 at 8:47 am

    You know, there is a bigger lesson to be learned here, not about Canada per se, but about the Left in general. “Feminists” were as quick to applaud Trudeau’s Tumblresque cabinet as they were to jump on him as if he said “Women belong in the kitchen, not in politics”. And there’s a reason for that: despite his self-classification as a “feminist”, he’s not a part of their in-group – he’s a *male*.

    What happens when you have a patchwork of rabidly ferocious self-serving special-interests groups pasted together with nothing else but the desire to further their own agenda? Eventually they’ll forget they’re going after a “common foe” and turn on one another, like a band of rabid dogs fighting for a bone.

  19. George B says

    May 23, 2016 at 9:11 am

    The point is that Trudeau took the law into his own hands and committed assault. The elbowing may or may not have been accidental, the blow appears to have been pretty strong based on the woman’s reaction, however that aside physically intervening in a dispute and grabbing a person is against the rules of the House of Commons. The Speaker of the House is the only person entitled to enforce the rules and he has many ways to enforce compliance.

    Furthermore unwanted and uncalled for grabbing of another person is either assault or battery.

    It is like a person intervening uninvited in a dispute on the street and getting physical with one or the other persons, the intervenor can be charged with assault. Whether he is or not does not excuse the breach of the law.

    As the head of the Legislative and Executive branches of the Canadian Government PM Trudeau should hold himself to the highest standards in respecting the rules and laws that govern our society.

    This was merely one of many expressions of the entitlement and arrogance Trudeau possesses. He is no different than his father in this respect.

    Trudeau is the man who held up the Chinese Government as his favourite system of government, which reflects his view that people like himself are the only one fit to govern and that government is authoritarian and discretionary.

    As to the double standards of feminists, if it wasn’t for double standards ‘progressives’ wouldn’t have any at all…

  20. Ninsuna says

    May 23, 2016 at 12:34 pm

    A great article, and spot on. It’s good to see the “soft bigotry of low expectations” is finally being acknowledged more widely (although I’ve never thought of it as especially “soft”, as the concept has been defined). I have always been disgusted by the leftist callousness in their apparent belief that “brown people” in other countries can’t be expected to live up to standards of decency. Kudos to this woman for calling them on it so eloquently!

    • linnte says

      May 23, 2016 at 12:49 pm

      Camille Paglia said, “As long as there are special rights, there can be no equality”. GIVING brown, black, white or purple people a right means that they really don’t intrinsicly have that right. If we all just lived according to our Constitution, we’d all be equal. No special treatment for anyone! It’s like expecting to land a good job if you can’t speak English in America. If they don’t get the job, so they scream racism. Yet, they can’t speak English, so the quality of work expectations drops and so do customers. Then they lose the job because there isn’t any work.

  21. ninetyninepct says

    May 23, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    He deliberately violated the Parliamentary Rules of Conduct required of all MP’s. It is forbidden to cross the floor and attack others. It is an obvious display of self importance and self entitlement. It is clear he considers himself above rules and laws. It is also a failure by Parliamentary Security who are responsible for the safety and security of all Members.

    We can only assume he learned this while “working” at a daycare where he could bully little children. Now that he has to work with big people he throws a hissy fit when he doesn’t get his way or things don’t go as he decides they should go.

    Female MP’s should be concerned for their safety when in proximity of Liberals. An appropriate legacy.

  22. Kepha says

    May 23, 2016 at 6:00 pm

    Just curious: How many commenters here are Canadian, and how do you folks read this incident?

    Your southern neighbor,

    Uncle Kepha

    • linnte says

      May 23, 2016 at 6:37 pm

      I think the people trying to block the voters initially, are wrong, 100%. How dare they. I also think your PM had no intention of elbowing anyone because if he had intended, it would have been noticeable. I wonder why he didn’t speak up about the people blocking the voters, call them by name and make THEM look foolish. It would have been more effective and then he wouldn’t have looked silly dashing accross the room to help. But, personally, I can relate to his righteous frustration, because I would have probably done the same thing and to HELL with protocol.

      • linnte says

        May 23, 2016 at 9:08 pm

        Mickey, this whole blog is about VERBAGE. It’s called conversation. It’s not your job to decide who gets to talk about what. Hense the term “blog”. Ignore it if you don’t like it. Some people enjoy observation of, and communication about nuances in human behavior which can say tons about the person being observed. If this happened in American Congress, you can bet your sweet bippy people would be talking about it too.

  23. linnte says

    May 23, 2016 at 9:10 pm

    I will look for childish behavior in him, and guaranteed it will happen. Must I remind you, Canadians voted him in. Not me ?

  24. daniel sebold says

    May 23, 2016 at 11:43 pm

    At Minnesota State University, Mankato, a football coach who had a video on his cell phone of his toddlers dancing naked in the living room was charged with being a pedophile, but cultures that practice female genital mutilation are considered part of the rich cultural tradition on campus that should be welcomed and celebrated. You won’t hear any objections from campus feminists about Somali FGM on Somali night or any other night, but the audacity of a football coach to have a video on his cell phone of his toddlers dancing naked and poking each others’ bums–something that even Saudi wahabies would find amusing, something they might have on their own cell phones of their own toddlers–why that is child abuse of the worst order.

    • linnte says

      May 24, 2016 at 1:24 am

      Wow! That’s ridiculous! It used to be traditional to photograph your baby naked on a bear rug. Or in the bath tub. This is Big Brother crap!

  25. Chris Malan says

    May 24, 2016 at 2:21 am

    This woman should get an Oscar. She’s like the soccer players performing for the referee to penalize an opposing team member.

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