There is a no more vomitous woke leader than Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In another stunning piece by Janice Fiamengo, we learn that Trudeau’s weak, weepy anti-masculine character was the work of a toxic feminist mother. Essential reading.
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Canada’s “Proud Feminist” Leader
Son of a sexually liberated woman who lost interest in mothering, Trudeau is a case study in the effects of toxic femininity
Janice Fiamengo, Jan 05, 2025
[Above, Justin Trudeau tears up over the death of the lead singer of The Tragically Hip]
Under attack from all sides, including from his Liberal caucus, and with his approval rating at an all-time low of 22%, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently retooled a signature strategy: affirming his feminist credentials. He told an audience at a gala for Equal Voice (an organization that focuses on getting women elected to public office) that he is a “proud feminist” and would always be an “ally” for (feminist) women. He strongly suggested that misogyny was the reason Kamala Harris was defeated in the American federal election.
For Trudeau, being a feminist “ally” involves accepting that political power and sexual freedom are the highest goods for women, ignoring the fact that the progress women have made toward these goals has not made them any happier. The main initiatives touted by Trudeau at the gala were government-funded daycare, government-funded contraception, and government-funded abortion—all necessary to liberate women from the alleged burdens of motherhood so that they might pursue sexual pleasure and power.
As the icing on the cake, the Liberal government would also continue to pour money into “a gender-based violence strategy” that assumes men to be a threat and women victims. Trudeau would never admit+ that married women living with their husbands are significantly less likely than other groups of women to be victims of intimate partner violence.
Ironically—or not, as we will see—Trudeau’s actual track record with feminist women in his government has not always been smooth. Recently, he had a very public falling-out with his deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, who made a resignation statement denouncing the feckless qualities she must always have known he possessed: his preference for “costly political gimmicks,” as she called them, and his too-evident self-focus. Freeland has decided to distance herself from Trudeau in the last days of his once-popular reign.
As Trudeau’s tenure reaches its end, it is worth reviewing his feminist style. Trudeau’s self-presentation has its roots in the mother who publicly humiliated Justin’s father, former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, abandoning their marriage and their three young sons in pursuit of the sexual freedom that Justin now champions. Margaret Trudeau’s wounding influence is indelibly stamped on her son, from his lavish public emoting to his capricious and at times cruel decisions.
[Margaret Trudeau, with her husband Pierre, in the early 1970s.
The following analysis is adapted from an essay published in this newsletter two and a half years ago]