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Canadian PM Trudeau Physically Assaults Female MP on Parliament Floor
Wednesday afternoon, self-described feminist and progressive hero Justin Trudeau was caught on camera grabbing an opposition whip on the wrist and elbowing a female legislator in her chest. All on the floor of Canada’s House of Commons. You can see the incident at about the 50-second mark of this video.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was accused of “manhandling” Opposition Whip Gord Brown and elbowing NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau in the House of Commons as MPs gathered for a vote on the government’s assisted-dying bill Wednesday afternoon.
In video from the House, Trudeau is seen walking toward Brown in a crowd of MPs in the Commons’ aisle, taking his arm in an apparent effort to move Brown towards his seat.
MPs were just about to vote on time allocation for bill C-14, the government’s physician-assisted dying legislation.
The prime minister later said he felt Brown was talking too slowly ahead of the vote.
The prime minister then crossed the floor and engaged in a loud and apparently heated conversation with NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.
NDP House Leader Peter Julian accused Trudeau of “manhandling” Brown, as MPs on all sides of the House shouted and Speaker Geoff Regan struggled to regain order in the House.
An emotional Brosseau said later in the House that she had been “elbowed in the chest by the prime minister,” bringing Trudeau to his feet once again to “apologize unreservedly.”
Brosseau said she was so upset from the incident that she had to leave the chamber, subsequently missing the vote.
A colleague of Brosseau’s, MP Nikki Ashton, didn’t exactly accept the apology.
“I am ashamed to be a witness to the person who holds the highest position in our country do such an act,” she said. “I want to say that for all of us who witnessed this, this was deeply traumatic, what I will say, if we apply a gendered lens, it is very important that young women in this space feel safe to come here and work here. He made us feel unsafe and we’re deeply troubled by the conduct of the prime minister of this country.”
That’s the third-wave feminist version of high crimes and misdemeanors. Viewing the video, the incident is more Corey Lewandowski than Taiwan Parliament, but it might take the shine off of global progressives’ favorite new leader.
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How about, “Canadian PM channels Tamerlane and lays siege to innocent single mother while MP’s watch hockey playoffs on smart phones.”
And if Dramaqueenery were illegal, this entire website would be doing hard time — or at least a lengthy timeout on the fainting couch.
“Canadian PM Trudeau Attempts Murder on Female MP” is how I would have done it!
HOW DARE YOU!
I don’t think things got too oot of hand, eh?
We learn from the best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXOYcd6KZ0E
BP,
Well, I would assume that “assault” does require intent. However, why do you insist upon bringing up pertinent facts and relevant law when everyone was having so much fun claiming false charges. Surely you get the idea that in the modern PC world being jostled accidently is a high crime while if thousands of people are genocidally murdered overseas it is just one equally valid culture expressing itself over another.
Do try to get with it.
Regards,
Jim
There is no such thing as criminal or civil law inside the House.
Thanks to Parliamentary Privilege, they are governed solely by the rules of House procedure. The highest offense would be “Contempt of Parliament”. Since he apologized, that one doesn’t apply. The second-highest offense would be “Unparliamentary Conduct” or “Breach of Privilege”.
Since the Liberals have a majority in the House, the highest punishment he can realistically receive is … a reprimand from the Committee of Procedure and House Affairs.
(If the opposition had a majority, technically they could vote to have him beheaded.)
Oh, I’ve been told that many times before, Jim…I’ll try my best to do better! =)
I might agree with you if Trudeau had been in the scrum the entire time.
But he wasn’t.
He was on the other side of the aisle, sitting down. He got up out of his seat, and marched, purposefully, into the scrum, grabbed one guy, spun around, elbowed the woman, and hauled the guy he was hanging onto away.
That’s a lot more than a casual or haphazard ‘bumping’ by people who are sharing the same space.
More than one source has indicated that Trudeau was swearing, using terms I can’t repeat here, as he approached his nemesis, who Trudeau felt was ‘walking too slowly towards his seat.”
On May 5, a Conservative member of parliament rose in a formal session and said that Trudeau had, on multiple occasions, been pulling faces and sticking out his tongue when he heard questions that he didn’t like.
Perhaps there are other issues, and more to the story, than we know at the moment.
Or, perhaps Trudeau is just a spoiled, entitled lout.
Wouldn’t be the first.
Probably won’t be the last.
She,
I would say you are at once too critical and too kind. First, it really does appear to me in the video that he didn’t even see the women behind him. Of course, the behavior if not intentional speaks of a kind of reckless immature stupidity. So I think you are giving him too much credit when you call him a spoiled entitled lout.
I would call him an obnoxious puerile asCoCle.
Regards,
Jim
Much ado about nothing, again.
That said, Justin Trudeau is a still a tool and should resign anyway.
As a fellow Québécois (by ancestry), he embarrasses the hell out of me.
As a fellow human…
Can we agree that this was inappropriate behavior? I’d call it rude and high-handed.
This is the really silly bit. He was being a schmuck whose conduct anyone might find troubling —the “gendered lens” is not necessary. And, as a term, it’s just embarrassing.
Like a cranky nanny, ready to leave the park.
One journalist’s play-by-play of how it all went down:
http://blogs.canoe.com/davidakin/politics/video-trudeau-grabs-conservative-mp-elbows-ndp-mp/
Not simply “inappropriate”. In his own apology he admitted that it was “inappropriate”, because that word really doesn’t mean anything as far as the rules go.
The big question is whether or not it was “unparliamentary” and a “breach of privilege”.
In the words of Oscar Wilde, “Irony is wasted on the stupid.”
Mis,
Look Mis, if you’ve got grounds for a Public Hanging then call me. Otherwise:
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME POPCORN!
Regards,
Jim
“We shouldn’t be afraid of the word misogynist. Men and women should use it to describe themselves.”
There. Fixed that for you.
That’s what I call a win-win!
Note:
All caps switched to bold and ital.I don’t care whether he saw the woman or not.
Tell you what: Instead of wasting all this time talking about the spoiled, or puerile, or stupid, or inappropriate, or whatever we want to call it, behavior of this narcissistic man-child, let’s instead celebrate the millions of men and women worldwide who never get up, unprovoked, out of their seats and march, mouthing obscenities, several yards–not for reasons of safety or protection, not for any other observable reason–into what seems like a small, and orderly group of people simply because they think one of the men in the group isn’t walking fast enough, who never grab that man by the arm and jerk him around, who never find themselves having to apologize repeatedly for causing a ruckus amid peaceable folk, who never find themselves, as a result of this sort of interference, elbowing women in the ribs, or in the chest, whether they see them or not . . .
. . . and who never do any of these things because thy’re behaving themselves and minding their own business!
How about we celebrate them, instead?
If we have to. But that’s not nearly as much fun as teeing off on Trudeau.
They never call that in the playoffs.
He apologized like any gentleman should. . .that makes all the difference.
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I can agree with that. I’m amazed at how many people on this thread want to make it more than that.
I also wonder if his father was like that. I wouldn’t be surprised.
When I read this from MP Nikki Ashton, “I am ashamed to be a witness to the person who holds the highest position in our country do such an act,” she said. “I want to say that for all of us who witnessed this, this was deeply traumatic, what I will say, if we apply a gendered lens, it is very important that young women in this space feel safe to come here and work here. He made us feel unsafe and we’re deeply troubled by the conduct of the prime minister of this country.”
I’m thinking drama queen. She sounds priggish. Of course we see the same thing on American (and Canadian?) colleges.
If people like her keep it up, Trudeau will end up becoming popular in the same way Trump has.