In an interview with CBC, Canada’s first and only female prime minister called U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump a “self-celebrating sexual predator” whose comments about the election are “a crime against democracy.”
Kim Campbell was prime minister for just over four months in 1993. She also served as justice minister in the early 1990s during which she reformed sexual assault law.
Current leader won’t comment on Trump
While Canada’s current prime minister and most cabinets have carefully refrained from commenting on the presidential election campaign, Campbell does not hold back.
“He has described himself as a sexual predator. The behaviour he has admitted to and celebrated in himself is predation,” Campbell told CBC news. “Unconsented sexual touching is a sexual assault. And somebody who does that, who thinks he has a right to do that, who does it thinking that it’s a reflection of his value because he’s a celebrity, et cetera, I mean that is predation.
“It makes everybody feel unsafe.”
“A wave of misogynistic rhetoric’
Campbell has previously tweeted and re-tweeted anti-Trump sentiments. She has expressed concern about the effect Trump’s comments could have on women.
“He has released a wave of misogynistic rhetoric in the guise of being opposed to political correctness,” Campbell said. “The giving permission of people to express the worst misogynistic attitudes is incredibly dangerous and very, very worrisome.”
Campbell also said Trump’s assertion that the only way he could lose the election is if the system is rigged “is very dangerous…To encourage people to… believe somehow an election was stolen from their candidate is really a crime against democracy.”
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