Trudeau, Women, & Minorities: the Brutal Reality | Celina Caesar-Chavannes | EP 493

Hello everybody! So my wife and I are going back out on tour from my new book, "We Who Wrestle With God." I'm going to be walking through a variety of biblical stories now. The postmodern types and the Neo-Marxists, they think the story is one of power and that is a dangerous story. The fundamental rock upon which true civilization is built is encapsulated in the biblical stories.

So I've spent a lot of time trying to understand them. The point of the book is to bring whatever understanding I've managed to develop to as wide an audience as possible. There were no words; it was a glare, it was this rening of the face, it was this the exhalation of his voice. I stood there and I said, “You know what, Justin?” I'm really... and I was stopped in my tracks with the glare. The huff, he got up out of his seat and he just like stormed out of the room. I froze because at that moment, I knew that this person actually could make or break the rest of my life.

Hello everyone! Canadians have benefited from or suffered under the rule of Justin Trudeau for a substantial amount of time now. During that time, his administration, his government, has been plagued by a number of scandals, some greater and some lesser. One of the more unreported scandals has to do with the sequential departure of some of the more powerful and opinionated figures in his cabinet and his government, including many of the women that he so triumphantly appointed to his cabinet, founded on the idea of equity in 2015.

I've reached out to many of the people who've abandoned his ship, you might say, on the liberal side to talk to find out what it was like working with Justin, with Prime Minister Trudeau. Generally, they've refused to talk to me, not impolitely or anything like that, but it just hasn't been successful. But today, it was successful because I got to talk to Selena Caesar-Shobhan, who was elected in the riding of Whitby in 2015, who left her own business, divested herself of her own business to do so, and then was appointed parliamentary secretary.

She told us what it was like; she worked very closely with Trudeau, or in principle very closely. The story is much more complicated than that for about 4 years until she decided that, to put it bluntly, she'd had more than enough. As you will discover if you attend to this podcast, which I would highly recommend, particularly if you're Canadian, it is devastating, really.

Um, it was, it's a shocking interview, I would say. It's an emotional interview; she's very articulate, she's very careful, she's very forthright, and revealing, much more so than I might have expected. The picture she paints is not a pretty one. Seriously, not a pretty one. And everyone who has the opportunity should listen to this if there are citizens in Canada because you need to know just exactly who it is that's running the show. So join us and find out.

So, Selena, we'll start, I think, by just giving people an overview if you would about what role you played with the Trudeau Liberals and expand on that if you would a bit. So that people who are listening from other countries have a more comprehensive idea of how the Canadian federal system works, the electoral system.

Yeah, so I was elected in 2015 and I should say before that, the Member of Parliament in which my riding, or my jurisdiction, my town is, passed away. He was a former Federal Minister, a really well-liked individual. So in 2014 that happened, and as you would run in any other election, a byelection was triggered at that time. I lost the byelection. When that happened, of course, the next time to run was the general election.

A general election in Canada runs pretty much as any other democracy; you are voting for the person in your riding. You're not, not like the United States where you vote directly for the Prime Minister or directly for the President. You vote for the person in your particular jurisdiction. In 2015, I ran again for the Liberals and I won that election, so I was a Member of Parliament for my town of Whitby that I've lived...