Dominique Anglade denounced the double standard imposed on women politicians
The life of a politician is not easy, especially if you lead a party. In politics, women are judged more harshly, in their appearance or state of mind, feel an obligation to be perfect at all times, in all aspects, there is no room for error or anger, and need to continue to prove themselves. Dual criteria. Two weights, two sizes. Still today, in 2022.
And if as the leader of the official opposition we also have to face Prime Minister François Legault every day in parliament, it has not improved.
This feminist outing, like a cry from the heart, came from Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) leader Dominique Anglade, convinced that being a woman was far from unrelated to the setbacks her party encountered. , to fall free in the polls, and the Prime Minister’s attitude to him.
He was a paternalistic man, that is for sure. , he said of Mr. Legault, in a lengthy interview with The Canadian Press, at a café in Quebec, at the end of a difficult week for his party. Thus, during the by-election in Marie-Victorin, Monday, the PLQ had to settle for fifth place and an embarrassing 7% of popular support.
Ms. does not even appreciate. Anglade commented on Mr. Legault, the night of his party’s victory at Marie-Victorin, when he said he did not want to be seen by Quebecers. throw mud in the CHSLD Herron file, in which dozens of seniors died in poor conditions during the first wave of the pandemic. We are in the sewer! said then Mr. Legault, obviously disgusted with the questions of the leader of the official opposition, daily.
The latter found that the Prime Minister had exceeded the limits, not reserving a fair treatment of facts . Is it paternalistic, condescending, even sexist? Really reply by Ms. Anglade.
We are counting how many opposition leaders in the past 20 years have been called whiny? while if he would allow himself to criticize the government stable, [on dira] either he is aggressive, or he is complaining rather than firm or determined.
There’s the bias in the different, harder, negative look, if it is a woman, she refuses to be a victim.
This attitude greatly infuriated him, especially since he felt that he was still in control of himself in the National Assembly, convinced that he would not be forgiven for even the slightest mistake, a clumsy word, an explosion of anger.
However, he sometimes gets angry when he hears some thoughts from the Prime Minister, as when he told the House in February, over a closed microphone, that the President of the National Assembly, François Paradis, has been a Quebecer since he is a caquiste. That day, he said he let out some swearing, but he swallowed his anger, deciding in front of the media that let nothing show , would definitely pass for a hysteric if he had delivered the bottom of his psyche. With a slight increase in tone, he passes into aggressiveness, which annoys him.
He believed that Mr. Legault treated the men and women around him differently. He obviously passed the towel for the men more easily , he judged, referring to the three women packed into the cabinet since the beginning of the mandate, MarieChantal Chassé, Sylvie D’Amours and Marie-Ève Proulx. No male minister has experienced the same fate, while some have suffered.
He cited the case of the Minister of the Economy, Pierre Fitzgibbon, who has been repeatedly slandered by the Ethics Commissioner, but is still in office. Me, I’ve never done what Pierre Fitzgibbon did made and remained a minister, said the former Minister of Economy in Couillard’s cabinet, sure he would not be not passed because we do not accept that a female politician can find herself in turbulent waters.
I have less room for error a politician, the Liberal leader believes, is sure that women, unlike men, are nothing free pass .
To reverse the trend, he argued that we should do everywhere women’s political leadership, and let it snowball, reflecting all spheres of society.
The Perfect Woman Syndrome
Knowing they have no rest, women politicians strive to be perfect, the Liberal leader said.
She said she was affected, like many other women who tried to make their mark in politics, from infallible syndrome, which I have .
Other than this reflex, it limits you to all you can be, to all you can say, in the way of expressing yourself . In other words, it prevents you from being natural .
He also said he was observing a dichotomy between who I am and perception people towards him. A gap between the public image and the real person.
It’s still not totally normal that whenever I know someone, the person’s comment is as follows: “That’s not at all how I perceived you”.
As the election deadline approaches, the one who has led his party for nearly two years wants to be more present on the ground, so that people can discover the true Dominique Anglade to the voters.
The regions largely avoided the PLQ in 2018. It specifically relied on its Charter of Regions to regain the vote of Francophones, by pleading for further decentralization of powers. The first announcement on this topic will be made Thursday in Trois-Rivières.
The Liberal leader said he wanted to return to the party’s core values, including economic development. Its vision is to combine economic development, wealth creation and the fight against climate change into a coherent whole.
He knew full well that he only had a few months before he could recover. Big challenge, but exciting he says.
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