Juno News - September 10, 2023


Conservatives vote in favour of protecting women’s spaces


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2 minutes

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358

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21

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5

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The Conservative Party of Canada has voted to protect single-sex spaces for women and define women as a female person. This is the first time a party in Canada has stood up in support of women and girls in Parliament. In this episode, we speak with women's rights advocate Linda Blade about the vote and her reaction to it.

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00:00:00.000 So I'm here at the Conservative Party Convention in Quebec City with Linda Blade,
00:00:04.600 the elite coach from Alberta and women's rights advocate who put forward a resolution to protect
00:00:10.640 single-sex spaces for women and define women as a female person.
00:00:17.880 Linda, your resolution passed with 87% support. Your reaction?
00:00:23.400 I am overjoyed, completely overjoyed, because we needed at least one party in Canada
00:00:29.560 to stand up for women and girls in Parliament. And, you know, honestly, it's what all of us thought,
00:00:35.940 that there's a majority out here who are silent, who do support us, but we're too afraid to say.
00:00:41.560 For sure, for sure. Of course, these resolutions are non-binding. The media is definitely going to
00:00:47.780 ask Pierre Polyev and other conservatives about this. How do you think they should answer their
00:00:51.840 questions, especially if they're politically charged with anti-trans-type rhetoric?
00:00:55.740 Well, making it anti-trans takes it away from being about women. It's actually pro-women.
00:01:01.980 And it's all, like, there are female-born people who are also trans. We accept them. So this is pro-women,
00:01:07.920 pro-female. It has nothing to do with identities. 1.00
00:01:11.220 So you think this is going to benefit the Conservative Party in the long run to have this position?
00:01:15.360 Yes. For anybody who feels insulted, there's going to be many, many, many more people now
00:01:22.100 voting Conservative because they trust us and our position is common sense.
00:01:26.620 And lastly, we've seen in the UK now the Labour Party has adopted a stand similar to yours.
00:01:31.660 We're seeing it in the US. Do you think this is part of the beginning of the end of gender 0.97
00:01:36.020 ideology, especially when it comes to women, and that in the next few years we will see real 0.98
00:01:40.540 legislation to protect women's spaces? 1.00
00:01:42.860 Yeah, I think this is the return to balance because, really, identities, it was the Liberals
00:01:49.440 who said identities is not the same as sex, biological sex. So we're saying, yeah, we agree,
00:01:53.560 just make, don't throw out biological sex, just balance those rights. That's all we're asking 0.84
00:01:57.740 is a balance.
00:01:58.960 This was Coach Linda Blade here in Quebec City for True North, Emilie Quentin-Nantel. 0.53