Trudeau Dismisses Former MPs Complaining About Anti-Abortion

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Following the footsteps of his father Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who once said MPs 50 yards away from Parliament Hill were “nobodies,” federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has also expressed similar sentiments about former MPs. Almost a half dozen former Liberal MPs addressed a letter to the party leader expressing their reservations regarding his position on abortion rights.

In response to the letter, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau dismissed the former members of the Liberal caucus and called them “old men” while implying that they want to “decide what a women does with her body.” Among the seven “old men” who signed the letter is former Kent MP, Rex Crawford, and former London-Middlesex MP, Garnet Bloomfield. Former Liberal MPs had alleged in the open letter that Trudeau is violating the spirit of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by binding new Liberal candidates to express anti-abortion views and agree to “vote pro-choice” on any bills. The ex-MPs questioned that “how can such a discriminatory policy serve the democratic ideals of our great nation?”

It wouldn’t be wrong to call all letter-writers to mostly be conservative in nature. In the last federal election, Crawford even endorsed a Conservative Chatham-Kent Essex MP, Dave Van Kesteren. Moreover, while serving in the Chretien government, Crawford was known for occasionally clashing with the prime minister on several issues. Quite noticeably, Crawford has been an independent thinker and not a person who always follows the party line.