WARMINGTON: It was cancelled women who cancelled ‘feminist’ Trudeau

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Published Jan 06, 2025  •  Last updated 1 minute ago  •  3 minute read

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pictured while announcing his resignation as Liberal leader and prime minister outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Monday, Jan.6, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

In the end, it was a British Columbia mom at a ski resort who gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the boot that sent him flying over the political cliff that should end his grip on power.

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“Please get the f— out of B.C,” said “farm mom” Emily Duggan on Dec. 27 at the Red Mountain Resort in Rossland, B.C.

Little did she know it would who her who would boot him out of leading Canada, as well.

“We won,” said the long-time critic of the prime minister on issues, ranging from gender studies in schools to vaccine mandates.

Her push on the ski hill — assuming Trudeau does leave office when the Liberals select a new leader — will be marked in the history books.

The irony is a self-declared feminist prime minister ended up being taken down by his battles with women.

In the end, while Trudeau may have fired Jody Wilson-Raybould, Chrystia Freeland, Julie Payette and Tamara Lich, the collective bruising he took from those episodes led to his demise.

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“He’s not a feminist,” declared Tamara Lich, a leader of the pandemic Freedon Convoy protest in 2022. “He’s a chauvinist.”

Needless to say, when she watched Monday as Trudeau announced his intention to step down, Lich reflected on just how much damage this man has done to her and the country.

Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich is arrested by Ottawa Police on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. SUPPLIED PHOTO

“I don’t wish anybody ill will,” she said. “However, you have to take the wins where you can get them. I have to take today to enjoy the moment.”

She hasn’t had many wins or days of enjoyment since being arrested in 2022. In fact, she has been waiting a long time for a win.

Still before the courts on mischief charges three years after the Freedom Convoy, she still faces 10 years in prison if convicted when her verdict is rendered on March 12.

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“It’s still hanging over me,” she said. “Today was a step in the right direction, but hopefully myself and my co-accused, Chris Barber, have our fair day of justice, as well.”

A victim of the Trudeau government’s decision to unnecessarily impose the Emergencies Act, the Metis grandmother has already served 49 days in jail.

While there were no prosecutions resulting from Trudeau’s many scandals, for Lich, the biggest issues for her were the suspension of civil liberties, the forced vaccine mandates and the impact of the skyrocketing cost of living on working people.

“I had to bite my tongue watching the television where he said about working for the middle class when he destroyed the middle class.”

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Even though she was jailed, and the other women were pushed aside, in the end, Canadians saw through this man and decided enough was enough.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and then Governor General Julie Payette wait to deliver the throne speech in the Senate chamber on Dec. 5, 2019 in Ottawa. Photo by FRED CHARTRAND /AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Over the years, I have written many columns about Trudeau’s problems with women, including former First-Nations justice minister Wilson-Raybould, her supporter, former health minister Jane Philpott, and the throwing under the bus of former Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes.

There was also his poor treatment of a B.C. Liberal candidate, Karen Wang, who was lambasted for telling her voting base she was of Chinese heritage; former governor-general Payette, who was piled on for trying to get her millennial staff to work harder; and reporter Rose Knight, who was told by Trudeau that she had experienced her interaction with him differently.

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While it was Freeland’s departure from cabinet which set this latest free fall of Trudeau’s leadership in action, the “farm” mother of two daughters over the Christmas holidays at a ski resort in British Columbia — who told Trudeau to “you suck” — set a tone he was never able to recover from.

Duggan told The Toronto Sun Monday that she felt instant elation upon hearing Trudeau’s retirement announcement on the radio while taking her child to school.

“I cheered out loud,” said Duggan. “My daughter said ‘What mom?’ I replied, ‘We did it. We outlasted him.’”

Other women he tangled with had their last-laugh moments on X, too.

“The PM did not sound like he wanted to go and was sadly not too gracious, but he is going,” posted Wilson-Raybould.

Philpott took the high road, tweeting: “It’s an emotional day. Anyone who served Canada as head of government deserves thanks and respect.”

While Trudeau is the guy who scolded Americans for twice failing to vote a woman into the Oval Office in favour of Donald Trump, in the end it was women who helped end his own run as a “feminist” prime minister.

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