Juno News - Conservatives vote in favour of protecting women’s spaces

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.

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

00:01:36.020 ideology, especially when it comes to women, and that in the next few years we will see real

00:01:40.540 legislation to protect women's spaces?

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

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.

Juno News - September 10, 2023