Bernier’s ‘virtue-signalling’ attack on Rempel is disturbing

Maxime Bernier is deploying the tactics of toxic masculinity to publicly harass his former female caucus-mate.
People’s Party Leader Maxime Bernier has criticized his former caucus-mate, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel, on Twitter for her support for a Liberal proposal to make menstrual products available for free in federally regulated workplaces.
OTTAWA—They say the only things you can count on in life are death and taxes. Well, as a woman on the internet, I can assure you that there is another: online harassment. It could be argued that in putting yourself in the public eye, you are opening yourself up to harassment—every public figure...

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