Two witnesses stormed out of a parliamentary committee meeting Wednesday, after Liberals tried to steer a planned discussion about violence against women towards the topic of abortion rights.
Cait Alexander, an advocate for sex assault survivors is photographed at Queen's Park in Toronto, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole BurstonA witness who stormed out of a parliamentary committee meeting in tears Wednesday is demanding an apology from a Liberal MP who put a halt to a planned discussion about violence against women in favour of a debate about abortion rights.
The meeting was scheduled after the killing of Breanna Broadfoot, 17, in London, Ont., who police say was a victim of intimate partner violence. "I'm supposed to be dead," she told the committee, showing MPs graphic photos of the abuse she suffered at the hands of her ex-boyfriend three years ago. Before long, Alexander's family members we berating MPs for a partisan display that descended into procedural chaos. Her mother told Vandenbeld that she was "disappointed," and the whole thing amounted to further abuse of her daughter.
After that, the meeting dissolved into a lengthy back-and-forth between MPs, as multiple points of order were brought to the chair. Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri lambasted Vandenbeld for derailing the meeting, and said the victims came to testify in order to bring about "legitimate change."The meeting adjourned shortly thereafter.
"It's so utterly disrespectful, inhumane and honestly just unkind to not allow us to continue a healthy conversation on what was supposed to be discussed, and the audacity to do something like that," she said."It is disgusting that this so-called feminist Liberal government today completely shut down a committee study into violence against women," Ferreri said.
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