Mallick, as a true progressive lives in her own insular world. Genuine criticism of a progressive woman is bullying but conservatives like Palin are fair game
Heather Mallick: Anyone who criticizes PM’s wife is a bully
Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, wife of what passes for the prime minister of Canada, has come under fire recently. She lives in free housing, complete with cooks, maids and other servants. In addition, the mother of three has two state-funded (that should read taxpayer-funded) nannies to help her with the children. And she has an assistant to help her although as the PM’s wife, she has no official duties.
The poor dear apparently cannot function with one assistant. So she did what most unhappy lefties do—she whined. Grégoire-Trudeau complained to Le Soleil that one assistant simply will not do. She said, “I have three children at home and a husband who is Prime Minister. I need help. I need a team to help me serve people.”
Unlike the wife of the U.S. president, the PM’s wife has no formal role to play in the administration. While most PMs’ wives do charity and other community work it is not their function “to serve people.” And of course Grégoire-Trudeau wants the taxpayers to pay for her “team.”
Naturally there was criticism for the princess’s demands, much as there was when it was announced she was provided two taxpayer-funded nannies for the three children. And a lot of this criticism came from other women who have to juggle family, kids and work without any of the luxuries Grégoire-Trudeau is accustomed to.
Enter Heather Mallick. Mallick is a long time columnist for the Liberal Party’s house organ that goes by the name of the Toronto Star. In a column on Friday, Mallick called anyone who criticizes the “wildly popular” Grégoire-Trudeau, a bully. And the columnist reserved most of her venom for other women who criticize the PM’s wife’s demands.
Mallick singled out fellow traveller NDP MP Niki Ashton for criticism. Ashton had said, “If we’re going… to talk about women being overwhelmed, let’s talk about everyday Canadian women who feel overwhelmed.” Ashton went on to say how the Trudeaus have two state-funded nannies while Canadian families struggle for daycare.
Well, that was just too much for Mallick. She accused Ashton of bullying the princess and gave her the biggest insult she could think of. Ashton was no different than “Candice Bergen and those other female Conservative MPs.” Ouch!
Of course Mallick would never ever bully a woman. Never ever ever!
Let’s flashback to 2008. The Republican Convention is over and John McCain had chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate. What did Mallick have to say about Palin, a woman?
Mallick wrote a column for CBC that was published on Sept. 5, 2008. In it, she described Palin as having “a toned-down version of a porn actress look.” She went on to say Palin as has “over-treated hair, puffy lips and a permanently alarmed expression.”
But the anti-bullying Mallick didn’t stop at Palin. She went on to make fun of Bristol, Todd and Track. The columnist described Bristol as having what is in Britain is known as the teen mum “pramface.” Mallick went on to describe Palin’s husband Todd as a “roughneck” and talked about Track going off to Iraq as appearing “terrified.” There was more general criticism of not just the VP candidate but her entire family.
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Related: Heather Mallick lives at CBCCBCreceived around than 300 complaints about the column. Not surprisingly they basically upheld what Mallick wrote about Palin, although some of it was not based on facts. But they said the columnist went too far when she criticized other Palin family members.
So to sum up, to criticize her beloved Grégoire-Trudeau for whining about needing more of the taxpayers’ money is bullying but to make fun of Bristol Palin because her mother is a conservative politician is perfectly alright.
Mallick, as a true progressive lives in her own insular world. Genuine criticism of a progressive woman is bullying but conservatives like Palin are fair game. She is reminiscent of the New York doyenne who, in 1980, couldn’t understand how Ronald Reagan got elected because no one she knew voted for him. Unlike Ashton, Mallick has no understanding of the problems everyday Canadian have. And she doesn’t care.
Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, wife of what passes for the prime minister of Canada, has come under fire recently. She lives in free housing, complete with cooks, maids and other servants. In addition, the mother of three has two state-funded (that should read taxpayer-funded) nannies to help her with the children. And she has an assistant to help her although as the PM’s wife, she has no official duties.
The poor dear apparently cannot function with one assistant. So she did what most unhappy lefties do—she whined. Grégoire-Trudeau complained to Le Soleil that one assistant simply will not do. She said, “I have three children at home and a husband who is Prime Minister. I need help. I need a team to help me serve people.”
