Shannon Proudfoot: The Daughters of the Vote, 338 young women, filled the House of Commons and with devastating timing turned on a leader they once admired
For a few hours on Tuesday morning, every seat on the floor of the House of Commons was occupied by a woman—338 of them, with a couple of their babies along for the ride. The usual ratio of the place runs about three-quarters male, and stubbornly that, so the change in occupancy was unmissable.
It’s unlikely that a single person on the floor of the House of Commons was oblivious to the presence and meaning of the presence of these three in the public gallery, who were Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott, all very fresh ex-Liberals.
It is almost impossible to imagine a more freighted, unflattering and brand-cannibalizing scenario for the Prime Minister than attending Daughters of the Vote the day after he bounced from caucus the two women at the centre—and for some, the defiant heroes—of the SNC-Lavalin affair.
The delegates possessed that particular combination of bright-eyed energy, preternatural poise and righteous fury that belongs to a certain type of impressive young person that you would have to be an idiot to patronize.
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