Congratulations to Nikki Ashton and her husband. And thank you to Nikki for providing Canadians with an excellent behavioral experiment to determine if someone is a chauvinist or even a misogynist.  Here is the experiment: In your social circles bring up Nikki’s pregnancy and see how folks react. Any reaction that has the whiff of "well she can't do the job if she is pregnant" is an automatic overwhelming fail. Of course she can do the job. Pregnancy is not an illness and anyone who thinks otherwise is just not yet out of the trees. Full disclosure, I am a guy. I might vote for Nikki, or I might not, but either way it would not be because she is pregnant.