When it comes to gaffes, Trudeau also faced a mini repeat of his famous “peoplekind” fiasco. During statements to the media this past week, he talked about the need for a “she-covery” to combat a “she-cession.” He was referring to the fact that the pandemic has reportedly hit women harder in an economic sense than men. Fair enough. But the corny language struck a lot of women as condescending.
There are only so many years that a man can think that repeatedly claiming he is a feminist should allow him to take support for women for granted and Trudeau may have finally hit that wall. This isn’t 2015 anymore.
The other big Trudeau gaffe of the week was also on economic issues. When asked about whether the Bank of Canada should have a higher tolerance for inflation, Trudeau tried to skip giving a substantial answer by saying: “you’ll forgive me if I don’t think about monetary policy. You’ll understand that I think about families.”
Economists reacted with surprise to the remark. David Dodge, a former governor of the Bank of Canada, took to television to say Trudeau was wrong to be dismissive of the issue and even called on the Liberal leader to retract the remark.
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