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The fallout is continuing from a shameful display of partisan sniping that led a pair of House committee witnesses to turn their backs on bickering MPs. On July 31, the Status of Women Committee held a summer meeting to discuss the all-too-frequent spate of violence against women.
As CP reported: “In her letter, Alexander also chided the Conservatives, and asked if the purpose of the meeting was a political ploy at the expense of her daughter to show how the Liberals and NDP would react.” “I do not have a partisan agenda. I am very irritated that this has been turned into a conversation about that when it shouldn’t be,” Cait Alexander told Global. “Our trauma will not be used for political agendas.
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