Is it possible that Canada’s dreamy, feminist prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has a problem with women who question his authority? After Trudeau’s behaviour in the House of Commons this week, that is at least a possibility.

In the question period before Wednesday’s budget speech, Conservative House Leader Candice Bergen picked up a line of questioning she has been pursuing for several days. She is worried that a new set of Parliamentary rules proposed by the Liberal government will limit the opposition’s ability to hold the government to account.

The Liberals want to reduce the number of days the House sits each week from four-and-a-half to just four. No Friday sittings. And they want to set aside one day a week for the PM to answer questions in question period.

The “reforms” would also extend the number of sitting days the government has to answer formal questions from the opposition from 45 days to 65 days. The ability of the opposition to compel the release of documents, ledgers and data is a critical check on government sneakiness. Giving a government another 20 sitting days (five weeks) to give answers allows ministers more time to bury the truth.

The rules would also limit opposition filibusters, give parliamentary secretaries (MPs who act like assistant cabinet ministers) more power at Commons committees and perpetuate the practice of omnibus bills. Omnibus bills are several pieces of legislation introduced all together usually with the intent of sliding controversial bills through in a bundle of less-contentious ones.

All three of these “reforms” Trudeau and the Liberals promised to get rid of during the last federal election because, they argued, they were all anti-democratic.

It’s a lot like their promises of democratic reform. Remember when Trudeau pledged that the 2015 election would be the last conducted under Canada’s traditional first-past-the-post voting system, only to ditch any electoral reform when it became obvious that first-past favoured the Libs’ chances of being re-elected next time?

Since the beginning of the week, Bergen has been focusing on the change that would set aside one day a week for questioning of the PM. Currently, Trudeau, like prime ministers before him from both parties, is expected to show up most days in the early afternoon to answer opposition questions of his government.

He lost his $hit on Candice when she dared question his arrogance in trying to change the rules to show up for work one day per week. https://t.co/0zIVeuOPFN — Michelle Rempel (@MichelleRempel) March 22, 2017

Of course, prime ministers aren’t there every day. They travel. They have meetings with foreign leaders and other obligations that keep them out of the House.

And even when they are there and a question is asked directly of them, prime ministers often have other ministers stand and answer for them to deflect controversy.

What Bergen wants to know, rightly, is whether the proposed change means there will be one day set aside each week just for questions directed at the prime minister or will there be only one day on which the PM will promise to show up. He won’t come the other three.

Trudeau won’t say. And on Wednesday he got very testy with Bergen for asking, again. Another Conservative MP, Michelle Rempel claims Trudeau “lost his s--- on Candice when she dared question his arrogance.”

This is the same self-proclaimed feminist prime minister who elbowed NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau in the chest in the Commons and told her and others to “get the f--- out of the way” while he was trying to strong-arm a Conservative MP into his seat so a vote on a government motion could go ahead.

Is it possible Trudeau’s feminist rhetoric doesn’t match up with his actions?

Naw, can’t be. Then it would just be like his rhetoric on middle-class taxes, small temporary deficits and electoral reform.