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The NDP called on the Status of Women Minister Tuesday to apologize for her colleague after Conservative cabinet minister Keith Ashfield told a high school student last week she’d make a “wonderful wife” someday.

The call came after NDP MP Megan Leslie failed to get Ashfield to clarify the context in which his comment would be acceptable.

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“Instead of encouraging young women to have a future of their own making, the minister of fisheries and oceans [Keith Ashfield] simply suggests that one day, we’ll make great wives,” Leslie said in question period.

“Will the minister for the status of women … stand up and apologize for her colleague’s comments?”

Rona Ambrose didn’t offer an apology and instead highlighted a group of women she recently met who are training to become heavy equipment operators.

On Monday, Ashfield didn’t apologize in the House of Commons for the comment, though he later said the statement was taken “out of context.”