Michelle Rempel-Garner Gives Witchy Halloween Tribute To Women In House
Must be the season of the witch on Parliament Hill.
At the very least, it is for Calgary Nosehill MP Michelle Rempel Garner.
The Tory health critic marked Halloween weekend Friday with a tribute to the witches of the past and the present.
To all the witches out there, keep rocking it. #samhain#halloweenpic.twitter.com/DIJg9bf1Mx
— Michelle Rempel Garner (@MichelleRempel) October 30, 2020
“Throughout the course of history, women have been burned at the stake and tortured for being witches,” Rempel Garner said. “In reality they were herbalists, midwives or just too independent for the patriarchy’s liking.”
According to the rules of the House of Commons, MPs may take one minute to give a statement on whatever they want. Rempel Garner used the time to make a seasonally appropriate and expansive statement on women and Halloween.
She also specifically shouted out independent MP Jody Wilson-Raybould, who was booted from the Liberal caucus in 2019 after speaking out during the SNC-Lavalin affair.
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“Today we might not literally burn women at the stake, but we still don’t believe them when they’re abused, we still punish them when they speak truth to power,” Rempel Garner said.
The speech was timed not only with Halloween, but Samhain, a traditional festival marking the end of the harvest and beginning of the dark winter. It’s traditionally observed starting on Halloween night and rolling into Nov. 1. The festival is marked annually by neo-pagans and wiccans as a religious holiday.
This weekend will be extra special, as it’s the first full moon visible across North America on Halloween in 76 years. It’s also a rare Halloween “Blue Moon,” meaning the second full moon of the month. October is the only month with a Blue Moon in 2020, according to NASA.
