Lean Out with Tara Henley
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Election 2025: Melanie Paradis on Women's Fertility
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Election 2025: Melanie Paradis on Women's Fertility

An interview with the Texture Communications president and Conservative campaigner
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Women’s fertility is a third rail in Canadian politics. We all learned this again last week, when Pierre Poilievre made a comment about biological clocks that sparked outrage. If you followed the controversy in the mainstream media only, you might not know that a number of women were glad to see Poilievre raise the issue of fertility — including my guest on today’s show.

Melanie Paradis the president of Texture Communications and a veteran Conservative campaigner. Her recent piece for The Line is titled “Poilievre was right to bring up my biological clock.”

Melanie Paradis is my guest, today on Lean Out. Transcript to come for paid subscribers.

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