Around 50 young women showed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau what they thought of his recent actions with a silent protest today.
They were in the House of Commons as part of Daughters of the Vote, which brought 338 women from all across Canada to Ottawa.
#DaughtersoftheVote turn their backs on @JustinTrudeau as he delivers his speech to #DaughtersOfTheVote2019 @EqualVoiceNCR @EqualVoiceCA @HoCChamber pic.twitter.com/eKp7dKO7HL
— Eleanor Floy Harvey (@EleanorFloy) April 3, 2019
Each young women, all between the ages of 18 and 23, represented a federal riding in Canada and they took their respective MP’s seat in Parliament today.
Daughters of the Vote just so happened to take place the day after Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott were voted out of the Liberal caucus, which sparked the silent protest.
The 50 or so women took a stand, literally, as Wilson-Raybould, Philpott and Celina Caesar-Chevannes, a now Indepedent MP who quit the Liberal caucus in March, sat in the crowd.
A stunning demonstration of young women speaking truth to power as #DaughtersOfTheVote question @JustinTrudeau (the #Wetsuweten were raised) & demonstrated their displeasure with his decision to remove @Puglaas & @janephilpott from his Liberal caucus. Strong. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/hYH50Hx7Px
— Nathan Cullen (@nathancullen) April 3, 2019
Trudeau wasn’t the only federal leader to get a poor response from the crowd today.
According to CBC’s David Cochrane, several dozen people walked out of Andrew Scheer’s speech.
The response was quite different for Elizabeth May and Jagmeet Singh, who both got warm receptions when they spoke.
