Trudeau’s symbolism was ‘dehumanizing’, former MP tells Jordan Peterson

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Most recently, Celina Caesar-Chavannes he sat down With Jordan Peterson and described how quickly her time as a Liberal MP had gone from “sunny roads” to dark days. Little of what Caesar-Chavannes says here is that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s behavior is new, but if she, Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott left parliament, these behaviors have been confirmed so many times that they are now impossible to ignore.

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Once elected, Caesar-Chavannes, eyes shining and hopeful for the sunny new ways of government, would soon learn what it really meant to work in the government “Because It’s 2015.”

Despite her lack of political experience, she became Trudeau’s parliamentary secretary within a few months. She told Peterson it was a shock for him to win and to be in this job. However, she assures that she was determined that she would make it.

Caesar-Chavannes says she didn’t get along with Trudeau because, she says, she didn’t immediately answer “yes” when asked whether she trusted his judgment or not. “NO. I have no reason. I just met you,” she told him. According to her, Trudeau was immediately offended by this. “I realize at this point the tension in the room got a little awkward,” she said.

“I ran. I was chosen, he just had a different title. We both worked hard. But for some reason I had to appreciate him. He beat me to the punch for that,” she said.

Admittedly, it sounds funny to anyone who understands what he was actually asking at that point. Trudeau clearly didn’t ask her for the trust that a husband and wife have.

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On the one hand, Caesar-Chavannes comes across as unnecessarily combative from the very beginning, as if she’s never had a boss before. There’s a Celina in every office – someone who’s too big for their pants, hasn’t yet taken the time to earn the respect and power they want to wield, and who immediately sees everyone but themselves at fault.

On the other hand, the person holding the highest office in the land should have been able to communicate with someone like Caesar-Chavannes gently and without offense. Unfortunately, Trudeau has always been a substitute teacher and doesn’t seem to have acquired skills that are useful in dealing with people in the real world.

When asked by Peterson who actually ran the agenda in the Liberal government while she was there, Caesar-Chavannes replied: “Canadians remember that when Harper was prime minister, people kept saying that the prime minister’s office is really centralized, all the decisions are made there – in the case Nothing has changed for Trudeau.

“It was headquarters, his principal secretaries Gerry Butts and Katie Telford, who mainly ran the program. I don’t think I’m the only person who would say that. “I think when (former Finance Secretary) Bill Morneau left, he said the same thing,” she said.

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Communication in the House of Commons was tightly controlled. Caesar-Chavannes was told: “Read this speech, say what it says and do not deviate from it.” She complained about cookie-cutter tweets: “Everyone tweets and they all look the same.”

Caesar-Chavannes quickly realized that the Because 2015 cabinet wouldn’t be full of rainbows and butterflies. (Parliamentary secretaries are not members of the cabinet, but they are represents the cabinet to the rest of parliament.)

“From 2015 to 2019, I was the only Black Canadian elected. I wasn’t going to complain too much. I didn’t want to ruffle feathers,” she told Peterson. But she thought: “something is wrong.” She was told to make sure she was in the picture on a specific date. It turned out to be to commemorate an event related to black history. She quickly began to notice a pattern. “I was invited to three black-centric events and then I had enough,” she said.

“Tokenism is very disenfranchising, very dehumanizing…. I’m not allowed to talk to the media, I’m not allowed to speak at home, they don’t send me anywhere. What type of trip comes to mind? What effect does it have on a person’s mind when they know they are there just to say, “omg, look at this, I’m black” and “omg, look at this (showing her breasts), I’m a woman.” Overall, she stated that she felt “deceived and betrayed” by the Liberal government.

At one point she told him, “If I’m here to fill any racial or gender gap in your government, I don’t want that role.”

In addition to having to deal with her being used as a prop based on her gender and race, there were also the explosive childish antics that Trudeau became known for that forced ministers to flee the sinking ship.

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Later, Caesar-Chavannes came to Trudeau to make peace, but it did not go well. According to her, as soon as she opened her mouth and said, “Justin, I’m…”, the room became tense: “There were no words. It was a glow. It was that red face. It was the exhale of his voice… And the glow stopped me, the gasp, and he got up from the seat and left, and I froze. Because in that moment I knew this person could truly make or break the rest of my life. Trudeau sounds like a human resources nightmare. No wonder his cabinet never complains about his constant absence from the House of Commons. They probably breathed a sigh of relief.

Peterson, an eminently qualified clinical psychologist, suggests that Trudeau may be: wounded narcissist, which is basically someone who is used to being a compliment magnet, whose ego has been seriously bruised and now constantly needs worship. Sounds pretty good.

Several other ministers have complained about Justin Trudeau’s behavior before jumping ship. Jody Wilson-Raybould expressed interest she never met him once believing him to be “an honest and good man, when in fact he was blatantly lying to the public,” and based on her description of events, she should be reprimanded for doing the right thing.

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And it wasn’t just about women, whose knowledge he had no time for. Bill Morneau suggested that Trudeau run his government in a politically driven manner to reject to score political points — Cutting big checks during the pandemic was the most popular thing Trudeau did. And we know how much he loves to be loved.

This was also done by former Foreign Minister Marc Garneau, who was an astronaut before politics he said: “The Prime Minister’s reticence has led me to the conclusion that he does not find my advice useful.” He added that Trudeau is not very good at international relations and does not appreciate their importance Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mélanie Joly comes in to help prove Garneau right.

When asked by Peterson why she did not address the media at the time about Trudeau’s behavior towards herself and others, she suggested that the media would not be interested: “The Canadian media, however, managed to glorify this person and not hold him accountable.” Caesar-Chavannes believed that the traditional media allowed Trudeau to avoid the consequences of his behavior and that those consequences fell more heavily on anyone who dared to oppose the prime minister. Some things never change.

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