The Toronto Red Star's Delacourt, below, is bringing out the I am
woman, therefore here is my victim card whining about the demise of
Helena Guergis, the proven incompetent Minister for Feminist Canada.
Guergis was less than stellar as a Secretary of State but still got
bumped up to Junior Minister of female entitlements (AKA Status of Women
Canada - SOW Canada). Recall her performance in Mexico when another
woman, a criminal, was in a Mexican jail, and the MSM jumped all over it
as though being a female and criminal in Mexico was somehow a great
sin. Did we ever see such a concerted campaign for a convicted criminal
man in Mexico? Guergis did not visit the woman saying if she did that
she would have to visit everyone. Go figure the logic but the MSM had a
martyr in this jailed and criminally convicted woman and would not let
go.
She was an affirmative action appointment, as are
others, and some just cannot function very well at all. When
affirmative action starts at the grass roots and many more qualified
people are overlooked it will become pronounced if these appointees are
given actual responsibility. Guergis is good eye candy and female but
clearly she is not able to operate at the necessary level. She has
proven her inability to judge well by getting tied up with the sleazy
Rahim Jaffer, the smooth talking name dropper and high flyer wannabe who
got himself mixed up with some criminal types whilst bragging about
his ability to get in the door of the PMO and the Prime minister.
They
are both shallow and rely on charm and looks which can't earn you a
living in the real world on a continuous basis without substance unless
it is under the table.
Delacourt admits the
Conservatives have more females in Cabinet proportional to their
membership but still whines, forgetting that Conservative male Ministers
are subject to greater criticism on an ongoing basis.
She
keeps the victim mentality of women alive as though they are no more
than children.
The far left socialist party in
Canada, ironically called the New Democratic Party, copied from the
American left wing party, had this to say as quoted by Delacourt, an
apparent socialist sycophant.
"On Friday, the New
Democrats' critic on women's issues, Irene Mathyssen, issued a news
release to argue that the Guergis "fiasco" is proof of the
Conservatives' lack of commitment to women. "
This
translated means, the sky is falling and women are again the victims of
the cruel tyrants in the Conservative Party. This despite the over
representation of women in Cabinet. She too brings out the victim card
and the upshot is she implores we want no damn Junior Minister for women
- we want a full blown bigger, more comprehensive, more expensive, and
more entitlements for a single gender. It is, as always, a zero sum
game.
There is no Status of Men, Canada and there is no
dedicated fund to assist men with their 4 times higher rate of suicide,
their 8% chance of getting physical custody of children while moms get
it in 90% of cases through social engineering by lawyers and family
court judges, (many of the latter appointed by this same Conservative
government.) Men live 5 years less than women, have far fewer health
care treatment/screening tests available under socialized medicine, are
falling further behind in university placements (its approaching 60%
women getting degrees and 40% males, and through the misandry evident in
the feminist camp (supported by the tax dollars from the same
Conservative Government) fewer men are available to teach our sons. In
Ontario female teachers in the 20-30 year old category outnumber men
over 4-1. Part of the reason for this is the feminist branding of men as
abusers and potential pedophiles. Boys, as a result, are highly
feminized, seldom ever encountering a male teacher, and because their
energy levels are higher than girls punished far more frequently for
being "boys."
Delacourt further whines, "or the harsh
discipline of strong performers who err." What harsh discipline for
strong performers. Is she alluding that Guergis is one such person. If
so Delacourt is seeing the landscape through an ideological and gender
imposed prism. What is she smoking, I wonder.
Here is
an interesting but all too frequent occurrence as opined by Delacourt:
"There was no discernible outcry from women's groups on Friday, for
instance, about Guergis's departure. It's doubtful that she'll be
missed. Just last month, while she was at the United Nations boasting
of progress Canada had made on women's issues, strong women's advocates
in Canada were sending withering, dissenting reports to the UN to
undercut her message.
These "strong" women's
advocates are Marxist professional feminists living off, in most cases,
the largess of Canada's taxpayers. I call them dead beat feminists who
do not have - nor could they likely ever - land a real job in the
private sector. The self same SOW Canada from which Guergis was ejected
likely funds the seditious Marxists whining about their victim hood.
This
has a purpose as the professional feminists at SOW Canada use these
sycophants to ensure they are not cut further in their budgets. Self
funded perpetuation. Give money to the professional whiners to ensure
the government giving the money is castigated for not doing enough.
Pretty simple, pretty seditious but pretty effective. The Marxist
feminists are not stupid but they are miscreants and mendacious.MJM
Published On Sat Apr 10 2010
Susan
Delacourt
Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA–It
isn't easy to be a female cabinet minister in Prime Minister Stephen
Harper's government.
Just ask Helena Guergis, ousted as
minister of state for the status of women on Friday, and also ejected
from the Conservative caucus – a particularly severe form of punishment,
unused to date against a Harper cabinet minister.
Or
ask Rona Ambrose, the public works minister who will take overGuergis's
responsibilities – as part of her slow rehabilitation after adisastrous
run as environment minister in Harper's first year of power. Or Labour
Minister Lisa Raitt, who was demoted from her natural resources ministry
in the last shuffle after brutal gaffes surrounding missing documents
and awkward, recorded conversations about "sexy"isotope crises.
Even
the quietly competent and experienced Diane Ablonczy,relegated
seemingly forever to junior status within Harper's cabinet,has been
tagged as troublesome – losing her right to announce tourism programs
last summer after she posed for pictures with drag queens while handing
over funds to Toronto's Gay Pride parade.
Trouble, when
it comes to Harper's government, often appears tocome in female form,
whether it's the promotion of women who disappoint, or the harsh
discipline of strong performers who err.
Maxime Bernier
lost his job as foreign affairs minister in 2008 because of his
attachment to Julie Couillard, an ex-girlfriend with alleged ties to
biker gangs in Quebec. After weeks of controversy over possible security
concerns in the Bernier-Couillard relationship, the minister finally
lost his job when Couillard went public with the news that he'd left
secret documents at her apartment.
Bernier was allowed
to remain in caucus, however – a privilege not extended Friday to
Guergis, which prompted speculation about what could be worse than a
potential national-security breach.
Or is it simply a
case of different discipline for different genders?
Harper's
Conservatives have long been wrestling with suggestions that they are
female-unfriendly. Belinda Stronach's explosive defection from the
Conservatives to the Liberal cabinet in 2005 may have been an
early
warning that this leader would have trouble with prominent females in
his circle.
The recent political storm over the place
of family planning and abortion in promoting maternal health – prompting
a rare public reproach from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton –
only further sealed an
impression that the Harper government is
more preoccupied with hockey and winding down the gun registry than
appealing to women and their concerns
(Ed note: Much is
made of Clinton's undiplomatic talk but she could not get such measures
through her own congress. It is Left Wing hyperbole.)
.Among
parties in Parliament, the Conservatives have the smallest percentage
of women in their caucus – just 16 per cent – but Harper has made sure
women are overrepresented in cabinet, filling 27 per cent of the
ministers' positions with women from that small pool.
Yet
apart from Human Resources Minister Diane Finley, women are not in
charge of the departments the Conservative government considers a
priority, getting shuffled instead around the second-rung posts, junior
ministries
or ministries of state.
Guergis's old department and
Ambrose's new responsibility – status of women – has always stood on
shaky ground as well with women's groups around the country. Ambrose
comes to the job with a few more
credentials, having cut her
teeth as a staunch volunteer for women's shelters in Edmonton before
entering political life.
Yet the Conservatives'
decisions to abandon a national child-care program, as well as cutting
advocacy dollars to women's organizations and the equality mandate of
status of women, has not helped any minister
in that post build
strong constituencies of support across Canada.
There
was no discernible outcry from women's groups on Friday, for instance,
about Guergis's departure. It's doubtful that she'll be missed.
Just
last month, while she was at the United Nations boasting of progress
Canada had made on women's issues, strong women's advocates in Canada
were sending withering, dissenting reports to the UN to undercut her
message.
On Friday, the New Democrats' critic on
women's issues, Irene Mathyssen, issued a news release to argue that the
Guergis "fiasco" is proof of the Conservatives' lack of commitment to
women.
"This government has proven through its actions,
time and again,that women in Canada simply do not matter," says
Mathyssen. She argues that by giving the status of women job to Ambrose,
it has been further
downgraded to a part-time concern.
"We
need a competent, capable, dedicated minister responsible for the
status of women; not a junior minister and not `postscript' in someone
else's portfolio."
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/793273--analysis-more-woman-trouble-for-stephen-harper-and-his-cabinet
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