Canada: Deputy PM Freeland Ambush Highlights Growing Threats to Women in Canadian Public Life
- 'Freeland ambush highlights growing threats to women in Canadian public life,' The Guardian, Aug. 32, 2022.
- Trudeau warns of increasingly toxic atmosphere in politics and journalism, with robust debate replaced by slurs and harassment. -
Justin Trudeau has warned of an increasingly toxic atmosphere in public life, amplified by the anonymity of social media and disproportionately targeting women and visible minorities in politics and journalism.
Encounters with disgruntled constituents have long been accepted as a reality of Canadian politics, but the tradition of friendly debate has increasingly been replaced by racial slurs, threatening phone calls at night and fears for the safety of politicians’ families.
On a visit to the province of Alberta on Friday, Canada’s deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, was accosted by a large man who hurled obscenities and called her a “traitor”. The incident, now under investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was quickly condemned by leaders of all parties.
Threats of violence, intimidation of any kind, are always unacceptable, and this kind of cowardly behaviour threatens and undermines our democracy, and our values and openness and respect, upon which Canada was built,” Trudeau said on Monday.
Freeland’s condemnation of the incident in Alberta has prompted other women to share their experiences of misogyny and racism while serving in public office...More, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/31/canada-chrystia-freeland-deputy-pm-threats-women
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