Posted on 11/14/2013 3:47:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
OTTAWA—The Toronto Centre byelection campaign is taking on a harsher edge as it heads into its final 10 days, and Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland is the prime target of some of the more pointed attacks.
In the past few days, Freeland’s rivals have been circulating campaign posters that mock her recent arrival in Toronto from the U.S., as well as a 2008 column she wrote, praising former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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Meanwhile, in the past few days, a 2008 column by Freeland has also been making the rounds, with the headline: “Sarah Palin is a true feminist role model.” In the article, Freeland describes the ultra-conservative vice-presidential candidate of that election as “a genuinely self-made woman, who broke into politics without the head start of a powerful husband or father.”
Freeland, in an interview with the Star, says she doesn’t regret writing the article or the sentiments within it.
“My basic point there, which I completely stand by, is that if you are a feminist — and I totally am — and you believe it’s important to have women break glass ceilings in politics and in other walks of life, you can’t be hypocritical about that,” Freeland said.
“There is sometimes an attitude, on the left, that says breaking a glass ceiling by a woman . . . only counts if it’s someone who shares my political views. The point that I made in that piece is that’s hypocritical.”(continued)
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
WHA !?
The notorious Toronto Red Star neo-marxist paper going after lil justin trudeau`s “economic advisor” !?
Liberal’s fangs coming out? Liberals getting ready to destroy someone? No surprise there.
I could comment on Canadian politics, but like Rob Ford, I have more than enough to eat at home.
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