Anti-LGBTQ+ Activist Who Ambushed Justin Trudeau During Family Ski Trip was Subject to Peace Bond, Banned From Entering School
Emily Duggan, failed school board trustee candidate who runs 'Moms Against the Norm', filmed video telling Justin Trudeau to ‘get the f—k out of BC’
The person who confronted Justin Trudeau during a family ski vacation is a vocal anti-LGBTQ+ activist who was recently subject to a peace bond and ordered to stay away from an elementary school.
The expletive-laden encounter went viral over the weekend after far-right influencers and right-wing alternative media sources began sharing the video, suggesting ordinary Canadians are rising up against the prime minister.
In fact, Emily Duggan, the person who takes credit for swearing at Trudeau in front of his children at a BC ski resort, is actually a twice failed school trustee who runs an anti-LGBTQ+ group called “Moms Against the Norm.”
Duggan refused to answer questions from ConvoyWatch about her video or a recent peace bond banning her from contacting local school officials.
Far-right influencers and media sources promote viral video of Justin Trudeau being told to “get the f—k out of BC”
Justin Trudeau, who is currently facing internal pressure to step down amid the resignation of his finance minister and calls from dozens of Liberal MPs for new leadership, is contemplating his future during a family vacation to Red Mountain — a ski resort built at an old gold mine in British Columbia’s mountainous West Kootenays region.
Video from the ski hill shows someone following Trudeau and his children through a snowy parking lot while struggling to catch their breath.
“Mr. Prime Minister?” they ask in the cell phone video.
“Yes!” Trudeau replies, extending his arm for a hand shake.
“Please get the f—k out of BC,” they tell him.
“Haha,” Trudeau replies sarcastically. “Have a wonderful day ma’am.”
“You suck,” the person responds as the video ends.
It is unclear when the video was filmed and published, but it appears it began to be shared widely after it was posted December 27 by convoy livestreamer Chris Dacey, a member of the so-called “Wellington Street Regulars.”
Within 15 minutes, the video was ripped and shared by two other convoy influencers. The video has since been repackaged by dozens of far-right influencers and alternative media outlets in Canada and around the world.
The video was later picked-up by Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington, who suggested the video “appears to be an orchestrated gotcha moment rather than an authentic interaction.”
According to postings on Dacey’s Facebook page, an individual named Emily Duggan took credit for filming the Trudeau vacation ambush video.
Duggan, who refuses to comment on the video, did not deny being the voice in the video when explicitly asked by ConvoyWatch.
Emily Duggan: Anti-LGBTQ+ activist and twice failed school trustee candidate
Although most right-wing influencers and media sources sharing the video identified Duggan only as a generic “local BC resident” or “Canadian woman,” Duggan has a long and well-documented history of anti-LGBTQ+ activism.
Duggan runs a group called “Moms Against the Norm,” which has been active in protesting SOGI 123 educational resources and drag story time events — one event in 2023 that Duggan’s group was involved with reportedly led to multiple police investigations into suspected “hate-motivated incidents.”
Duggan is also connected to online far-right networks, appearing regularly on podcasts with influencers associated with the Freedom Convoy, anti-LGBTQ+ activism, Christian nationalist groups and other far-right figures.
After running a failed campaign for school trustee in Nelson, BC in 2022, Duggan failed a second time during school board elections in Castlegar, BC earlier this year.
During that campaign, Duggan spoke at an event organized by the far-right group Action4Canada and made an appearance on Rebel Media.
Duggan also responded to a questionnaire on issues for “2SLGBTQIA+ voters and parents of 2SLGBTQIA+ students” prepared by Advocacy Canada which offer futher insights into her beliefs.
“Gender diversity is an ideology,” Duggan told the 2SLGBTQIA+ advocacy group. “I find it highly inappropriate that LGBT people of any age are constantly being singled out and over represented in our society … consistently cherry pick(ing) different demographics and hold(ing) them on a pedestal only creates division.”
Another question asked: “If elected, how will you combat homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in SD 20?” Duggan replied:
“If elected, I would combat the issues of Homophobia, biphobia and transphobia by encouraging educators to stop giving these students and staff special treatment. I believe that it is the special treatment provided to these groups that has created resentment in not only our hallways at school, but throughout our community.”
On social media, Duggan also claimed BC schools are promoting pedophilia:
“They are making pedophila a sexual orientation and normalizing it.”
Emily Duggan was subject to peace bond banning contact with school officials
Duggan’s behaviour is perhaps more troubling given that she has, by her own account, a history of public confrontations.
In a video from a “meet and greet” advertised on her own school trustee campaign website, Duggan explains her side of the story about an incident at an elementary school that led to her entering into a peace bond in 2023.
“It’s true,” Duggan says in the video. “I’m currently in a peace bond with three employees of School District 8.”
According to Duggan, she was involved in an incident that saw her storm into an elementary school resulting in a physical altercation with a receptionist, then proceeded to give the superindendant a “tongue lashing.” Duggan says police later came to her house and arrested her on her front lawn.
In Duggan’s telling of the story, she was motivated by grievances over water quality and school lunches, she insists the receptionist was the aggressor in the situation and actually made physical contact with her. She suggests the entire incident was politically-motivated.
“The mistake that I made was I went there upset,” Duggan later conceded.
When presented by ConvoyWatch with a copy of a peace bond published earlier this year by a website called Anti-Gender Watch, Duggan did not dispute the authenticity of the document.
The court document indicates Duggan was ordered by Justice Craig Sicotte to have no contact with three named school board employees and banned from entering an elementary school where the employees work.
The court document indicates Duggan acknowledged the peace bond in court and that it was in effect for 12 months beginning May 24, 2023.