Canadians, be warned. One of the candidates in your country’s election tomorrow is accursed. This man has spoken of that of which no man should speak.
Indeed, he has spoken of that of which neither man nor woman may ask why it is that of which no man may speak.
Poilievre referred to biological clocks during a news conference Monday as he was defending his campaign’s decision to focus on affordability issues such as housing, even as the country stares down U.S. President Donald Trump and the tariffs threat.
Do you really want a Canada where people can refer to biological clocks? Where men can refer to biological clocks – even while Donald Trump still exists?
It’s a riff on what he said last week at a rally in Stoney Creek, Ont., when he lamented that some millennials are “desperate to buy a home and start a family before the biological clock runs out in your mid-30s.”
In December, Poilievre said he feels for the “39-year-old woman, desperate to have kids but unable to buy a home in which to raise them, her biological clock running out.”
In a pre-campaign interview with academic Jordan Peterson, Poilievre also referred to aging women and their biological clocks, and the issue of housing affordability.
The term “biological clock” and any talk of it “running out” is generally used to refer to a woman’s declining fertility due to a reduction in egg quality and quantity as she grows older.
‘Our biological clocks are none of your business’
Liberal candidate Yvan Baker said the Conservative leader is “using a woman’s fertility as a punchline in a political attack,” calling it “outdated and harmful rhetoric.”Julie Dzerowicz, another Liberal contender, said in a social media post: “Our biological clocks are none of your business.”
Speaking to reporters in Winnipeg at Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s campaign stop Tuesday, candidate Ginette Lavack said Polievre’s comments are “completely unacceptable.”
“These are not comments that should be made by anyone. A person should have the right to choose the timing of when they’ll make those life decisions. It’s not a comment or a conversation to have publicly like that,” Lavack said.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was blunt when asked about the remark: “I don’t think any woman wants to hear Pierre Poilievre talking about their body.”
Canadians, it is in your hands to ensure that your country is a place where, as Ginette Lavack wisely advised, no public conversation on such topics can be had.
What is it with liberals not understanding basic biology these days?
Just when we seem to have settled that tricky old question “What is a woman?”, we have this nonsense about ignoring a woman’s fertility rates!
What have liberals got against good old-fashioned, chest-feeding, womb-having, cis-gendered female adult humans?
Men also have biological clocks. After 40 or so our sperm deteriorates and the chances of a defective child are higher.
Everyone dies eventually. Should we not discuss the social implications of such ‘life changes’?
In a day or so, when the result of the election is known, it will be known if Canada has any hope.
I am not saying that the Conservatives will certainly save Canada, I have been around too long to be anything but cynical, but if it is clear if Mark Carney (the “Liberal” representative of the totalitarian “international community”) wins – then there is no hope for Canada.
So the choice is between a chance (no more than that – just a chance) that Canada will be saved – and no chance at all.
Biological clocks tick down.
Immigration levels tick up.
That is the plan. Eh?
All I think about Mark Carney right now is Samuel Johnson’s saying that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. Johnson wasn’t indicting patriotism with this, he was taking frauds who appeal to patriotism as a last gambit. Having previously bet the farm on globalism, open borders and cosmopolitanism, Carney is very insincerely appealing to Canadian nationalism in response to Trump’s rhetoric.
A person should have the right to choose the timing of when they’ll make those life decisions, and damn reality! I *SHALL* have a baby when I’m 65, dammit, and how DARE the universe prevent me.
Well done, Natalie. This type of conversation against Pierre is precisely why Canada is a much less enjoyable place to live.
Poilievre is making a point in favour of these people. He is saying that most people would like to settle down in their own home and start a family before the biological clock runs out. He is on their side. But there is nothing leftists will not take as an insult if it suits them.