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Micheline Montreuil

The NDP: Democracy and the transgendered



Micheline Montreuil, a Quebec lawyer and former professor won the NDP nomination earlier this year to be the party’s candidate in a Quebec City riding. But recently, the party’s Quebec election planning committee voted to terminate her candidacy.

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Besides being a former professor, Ms. Montreuil is also a former man. Now she is considering taking legal action against the socialist party for discriminating against her. She has previously been successful against the Canadian Forces and the National Bank of Canada before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal is suits brought for discriminating against her on the basis of her sexuality. In true political fashion, the NDP denies that her termination has anything to do with her being transgendered. According to the election committee, she was dumped because she was not a “team player”. Whatever possessed the NDP to think that a man who becomes a woman would make a good team player is a matter that can be left for another day. But it’s possible that was the real reason for dispensing with Montreuil’s candidacy. In response to the brouhaha that has developed in La Belle Province, NDP leader Jack Layton issued a statement concerning Montreuil’s termination as a nominated party candidate. Layton said the election planning committee acted “democratically” and has to make decisions that are based on the best interests of the party. Layton’s comments strongly imply if not outright state that even if the action that the committee took was because of Montreuil’s sexuality, it was justified as long as the decision was arrived at democratically and in the best interests of the party. This is the typical reaction of those on the left who have one rule for themselves and one for everyone else. During the same sex marriage debate, the NDP under Layton’s leadership was the only party that forced their entire caucus to support Bill C-38. The NDP’s position made eminently more sense than that of Paul Martin who whipped his cabinet but allowed his backbenchers a free vote, all the while babbling on about how same sex marriage was not only an equality right under the Charter but a human right. The whole purpose of entrenched rights is to prohibit the rights of a minority from being taken away by the majority. But when it affects them personally such as the candidacy of Micheline Montreuil did, the NDP in true leftist fashion, change the rules. Democracy rules. It’s perfectly okay to get rid of transgendered or other minority candidates as long as it is carried out democratically. If Micheline Montreuil or someone like her was dumped by a greedy corporate entity instead of the NDP, Jack would have a hissy fit. He would cry about rights and discrimination and no doubt want more laws passed. He wouldn’t care about whether the termination by that company was made democratically or not. And he certainly wouldn’t care if the company was acting in their best interests when they terminated their employee. Equality rights must be enforced unless of course someone wants to enforce them against Jack or his party. The hypocrisy is breathtaking; but this is the way the left operates. As the late folk singer Phil Ochs once wrote, a liberal is someone who is ten degrees to the left of centre in good times and ten degrees to the right of centre when it affects them personally. Layton’s reliance on democracy is a classic case of “do what I say, not what I do”. Let’s hope that Micheline Montreuil does take some form of legal action against the NDP; the party of the poor and the downtrodden and the defender of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the transgendered everywhere except in their party. There is always the possibility that the NDP will be exposed for what they really are. They don’t care about the people that they claim to fight for. All they care about is the power to determine how other people live their lives. They never intend to be bound by the same rules that everyone else is.


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Arthur Weinreb is an author, columnist and Associate Editor of Canada Free Press. Arthur’s latest book, Ford Nation: Why hundreds of thousands of Torontonians supported their conservative crack-smoking mayor is available at Amazon. Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin is also available at Smashwords. His work has appeared on Newsmax.com,  Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.

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