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Tory MP accused of ‘disrespectful preoccupation with his blackberry’

November 16, 2009

Last week a mini-controversy erupted over whether Conservative MP Rick Dykstra was fiddling with his BlackBerry during a Remembrance Day ceremony in St. Catharines, Ont. A local Liberal, Renate Hodges, took a photo of the MP typing on his BlackBerry during the ceremony, and also sen...

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