Juno News - October 10, 2019


Liberal candidate running against Jane Philpott says Justin Trudeau is ＂true feminist＂


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

164.35083

Word Count

619

Sentence Count

25

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

In this episode, Andrew Lutton talks about the fallout from two women being kicked out of the Liberal caucus, and what that means for the upcoming election campaign. He also asks the question: Has Justin Trudeau got a woman problem?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The Conservative campaign strategy when it comes to Justin Trudeau has been a
00:00:13.800 very simple one. To tell Canadians he's just not as advertised. He said he was
00:00:19.080 about ethics and integrity then the SNC-Lavalin affair. He said he was an
00:00:23.160 indigenous warrior and then you've had First Nations community that have looked
00:00:26.440 at him and said well I don't like how you treated that first indigenous Attorney
00:00:31.000 General. You have him saying he's a feminist and then all of a sudden two
00:00:35.000 very strong independent women who upheld the rule of law ended up getting fired.
00:00:39.940 One of them is Jane Philpott the Markham Member of Parliament who is in a very
00:00:45.280 tight race it sounds like based on a poll commissioned by her campaign. It was an
00:00:50.080 Oracle poll and it revealed that Jane Philpott is actually in the lead albeit
00:00:54.340 with a very sizable margin of error against Helena Jacek the former Liberal
00:00:59.920 MPP in Ontario and now the federal Liberal candidate. Now this poll and again I must
00:01:05.440 stress has a 5.6 percent plus or minus margin of error shows Jane Philpott at
00:01:11.460 38 percent while Helena Jacek is at 35 percent. The Conservative candidate is back
00:01:17.800 at 10 percent which is very shocking for a riding that used to have Conservative
00:01:22.840 representation at the federal level not too long ago. But what is interesting here
00:01:27.760 is that it reveals the independent candidate narrative is taking hold. Jody
00:01:32.980 Wilson-Raybould has seen a lot of success in her race in Vancouver Granville and if
00:01:37.780 you compare this poll to one that was done a few months ago back in June about an
00:01:42.460 independent Jane Philpott run it's monumentally better. That poll which was
00:01:47.780 done by Mainstreak had Philpott in third place and the Liberal in first place. But
00:01:53.580 it begs the question has Justin Trudeau got a woman problem? Has he got a problem
00:01:59.080 with the women voters that carried him to victory in no small part in 2015? I was at
00:02:03.760 a campaign stop of his in Markham Ontario. I was banned from covering it but was able
00:02:08.920 to catch up with Helena Jacek outside and I asked her this very question how does she
00:02:14.060 run for a party that has really put Jane Philpott, a very strong woman, under the
00:02:19.580 bust the way it has? Here's that exchange.
00:02:21.860 How do you think her being an independent now, her ejection from caucus, speaks to the
00:02:28.860 Liberal government or the Prime Minister's position on women as a feminist leader?
00:02:32.860 I think he is a true feminist. Obviously I am the Liberal candidate and I'm female and it's simply a
00:02:43.420 matter of getting nominated for your party, going through a very rigorous nomination process and
00:02:49.780 being declared the candidate. So Jacek says it's just an issue about whoever's the
00:02:55.300 nominated candidate. There's no broader narrative, there's no broader theme and
00:02:58.780 nothing about the treatment of Jane Philpott is transferring into the themes of the election campaign.
00:03:06.140 That's what Ms. Jacek said when we spoke about this on Wednesday morning. Well I guess we'll find
00:03:11.980 out on election day but the one thing that is interesting is that there seems to be a honeymoon
00:03:16.860 fading taking place about Justin Trudeau and it's just a matter of how many groups that really he did
00:03:23.020 rely on in 2015 will go through that. People that wanted electoral reform are not happy, people that
00:03:28.620 thought he was a race warrior are not happy, people that thought he was a feminist warrior are not
00:03:34.620 happy. With support from enough of these groups chipping away Justin Trudeau faces a steep battle
00:03:40.300 to be re-elected. For True North from Ottawa, I'm Andrew Lutton.