Liberal MP for Ottawa West-Nepean Anita Vandenbeld rises during question period on Dec. 1, 2023.
There is cross-partisan agreement on at least one thing in Ottawa: last week's meeting of the House of Commons committee on the status of women was an embarrassing spectacle. The only debate is over who should feel the most embarrassed.Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld is offering her side of events at a recent meeting of the House of Commons committee on the status of women.
"You can't make it up," Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri told her online followers. "Even if you tried." "Referring to yourself 36 times is a weird way to apologize to survivors of ," Ferreri wrote.If Conservative MPs continue exploiting a chairperson's ability to call meetings, Liberal MPs surely will be motivated to return the favour whenever they are next in opposition.
"We could have done this properly, Chair, because it is an epidemic of violence," NDP Leah Gazan said at one point during last week's committee meeting. "I hope that we can do better. Lives are on the line. This isn't a game."Before tabling her motion last week, Vandenbeld predicted that if the Liberals didn't agree to go along with the meeting, there would be "all kinds of social media that Liberals or others don't care about this issue.
This isn't the first time people have worried aloud about the impact of popular media on the tone and tenor of Parliament. Granted, it's also possible last week's meeting of the status of women committee would have unfolded exactly as it did even if news was still being transmitted via telegraph. Either way, that meeting reflects poorly on the state of things in and around Parliament.
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