in World News Canada’s New ‘Conservative’ Leader: Abortion Isn’t Enough Of A Unifying Issue To Focus On
By Robert Kraychik
During an interview with left-wing magazine, Chatelaine, Canada’s newly-minted Conservative Party leader, Andrew Scheer, promised to avoid the abortion issue.
Chatelaine described lawful access to abortion as recognition of “[women being] able to make the choice for themselves to do whatever they want with their own bodies.”
Partial transcript below:
CHATELAINE: You’re pro-life, but say you won’t reopen the abortion debate. Why not?
SCHEER: There are a lot of different passionately held views on this issue across the spectrum, not just amongst Conservatives. Our party is the only party that allows people of different opinions to have a home, to have that conversation. As leader I think it’s imperative not to divide our own movement, our own caucus. So I think our party is better served by having a leader who focuses on issues we can all unite around.
CHATELAINE: So your daughters will grow up to be able to make the choice for themselves to do whatever they want with their own bodies.
SCHEER: To have a political party be the agent of change on this at this point in time, it’s not the right way to go. We need to focus instead on unifying issues. For example, raising the age of sexual consent from 14 to 16, which the previous Conservative government did — I’ve got three daughters, that didn’t speak to me as much then as it does now that they’re growing up.
Ending abortion isn’t enough of an issue to unify conservative constituents, according to Scheer.
Scheer also described himself as a “feminist,” framing feminism ‘s “core” as “fundamental equality between men and women”; partial transcript below.
CHATELAINE: You don’t believe in beating the woman drum as hard as the Liberals do.
CHEER: I use my wife as a barometer on this – my wife is one of the most fem-… pro-women, strong…
CHATELAINE: You almost said feminist – are you a feminist?
SCHEER: Yeah, absolutely!
CHATELAINE: What do you mean by that, though?
SCHEER: I think the core of that is to recognize the fundamental equality between men and women. There should be nothing closed to women by virtue of the fact that they’re women. There has to be this lens in public policy that realizes that. But yeah, my wife is most upset when it’s like, “Well, someone got to where they are not because they deserved it but just because they ticked the demographic box.” It’s Conservative solutions that actually provide for prosperity for women who want to advance in the workplace. We believe in the fundamental principles of equality and opportunity for women who try to have that work-life balance, we’re always trying to find ways to make that choice easier.
Feminism is a neo-Marxist paradigm framing women as oppressed by and relative to men across human history.
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