Anna-Lisa’s Reviews > Alexa! Changing the Face of Canadian Politics > Status Update

“How can someone who delivers the biggest health-care cuts in Canadian history call himself your friend?”

I NEED TO WATCH THIS DEBATE ASAP

“She ridiculed Jean Chrétien for claiming he understood the pain of unemployment, having been out of work for four months as a young man between his law school graduation and opening his practice. Let him tell the children who go to bed hungry at night that he’s so proud of his Liberal record on the economy.”

Knowing the political history of this holy fuck I’m turning into an excited schoolgirl.

“The pitch targeted traditional NDP and progressive voters who’d abandoned the party in 1993 to rid the country of Brian Mulroney’s Conservatives only to discover Jean Chrétien’s Liberals were really also draconian conservative wolves cleverly disguised as social democrats for vote-getting purposes.”

I am geeking tf out right now by this line and I’m so okay with that.

Once again the Canadian Education stream remains to be questionable to me... especially from personal experience.

“Perversely and because of the perceived inferior status of women, the husband of a female politician is often viewed as kind of a wimp.”

Sigh...

“The case had left Alexa with two impressions. She was the mother of two now teenaged sons who had been raised in a protective, supportive, family environment far removed from domestic strife, and they were often billeted in homes in Canada and the US while attending tennis tournaments. Her heart had stopped when she considered how easily her sons could have found themselves in a similar predicament.”

“Blatant sexism ran like a raging river through Alexa’s years in the legislature. In 1983, for example, she asked for the unanimous consent of the House for a resolution condemning the views of a one-time Tory MLA who had laminated in his column that husbands could no longer beat their wives even when they deserved it.” Hansard noted several MLAs declaring “No” to her request.

*screams*

They’d hover a little behind their husbands, listening silently while their husband made his “very anti-NDP, anti-feminist comments, and then you’d see them standing there, looking at you, rolling their eyes, as if you let you know they knew better. It just reinforced for me the idea that, yes women do need to be in politics.”

Why do I love this so much?

“Robbie recalled their father not only encouraged his children to discuss political issues growing up but also, and more importantly, taught them to think for themselves.”

I just heard my dad saying this hahah.

... they basically wanted their daughter to be educated and to succeed.... but we’re afraid to let go and realIzing their own reality if they did let go of her.. why is this hitting harder than I thought?