Dear Editor:
Here is my prediction for October 2025 – or earlier.
A federal election is called. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not seeking re-election. A woman – probably a cabinet minister, possibly Chrystia Freeland – will be the leader of the Liberal Party, giving Canadians the opportunity to elect a female prime minister for the first time in their history. It will be an important moment; one that the Liberals have been building up to since 2015, when the first “feminist” prime minister was elected.
So what will the Conservatives do? Who will the leader – male or female – of their party be in 2022? Do they elect a woman to run against another woman in two or three years? There are various scenarios to play out.
Leaders are critical to the success of any party but so are policies, which have become so complex most of us can’t follow what any party really stands for anymore.
A battle of the sexists – now that is easy to understand.
Janet Calderwood,
Rockwood