With all due respect to the MPs who spent many mortifying minutes last week batting the idea back and forth across the House of Commons, I don’t think Justin Trudeau’s public undermining of his finance minister Chrystia Freeland, just days before she is to deliver a fiscal update, is about her being a woman — or about Trudeau being a “fake feminist.” I think it’s more about a prime minister, and his retinue, who believe that communications and celebrity (of a sort) are nine-tenths of politics. Read More