House Status of Women Committee should learn from fracas

The Conservatives may be playing politics with this committee, but the Liberals and the NDP MPs should have known better. Canadians are always watching, especially when things go off the rails.

Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld, pictured Aug. 24, 2022, on the Hill, instigated a quarrel at an emergency meeting of the House Status of Women Committee on July 31, which she has since apologized for. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY EDITORIAL

August 12, 2024

Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld issued a statement recently after she instigated a disturbance and a procedural quarrel at an emergency meeting of the House Status of Women Committee on July 31 which caused two witnesses who were testifying about violence against women to storm ...

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