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One of the shortest apologies/statements to cross our desk: "[NDP MP] Mathyssen phoned [Conservative MP] Moore earlier this evening. Mr. Moore offered to explain that it was of his girlfriend. Ms. Matheson has accepted the explanation and offered her apologies and she will be making a formal statement in the House of Commons at the earliest opportunity."
Is Mathyssen's statement enough? The NDP MP repeated her disgusting/false accusations outside of the House of Commons where members may be subjected to lawsuits: "There was an image of a scantily clad woman in very flimsy lingerie...It was dark in colour and she was a brunette.
"It was, I would say, not hard porn by any stretch," said Mathyssen. "I would describe it as soft porn, Playboy-type stuff...But it was still inappropriate in the House of Commons. It reflects an attitude about women. It is an objectification of women that I find very, very concerning."
One can only hope that Conservative MP James Moore sues Mathyssen for behaviour that is unbecoming not only of an MP, but of humans in general.
And speaking of apologies: Where is Karen Redman's? The Liberal MP was only too happy to hop aboard the Moore smear train without a smidgen of fact.
[News: NDP Member Sorry After Launching Laptop Furor]
[Video: A Scant Political Drama]
Photo: NDP Status of Women critic Irene Mathyssen reads from a large Valentine-shaped card she attempted to deliver to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's official residence in Ottawa
on Feb. 14, 2006. Mathyssen was protesting the cuts to the Status of Women. Fred Chartrand/CP
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