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It’s the sort of antics you’d expect to witness on campus from first-year university students. The last place you’d hope to hear accusations of toxic terms like white privilege, male privilege and so on being tossed about is on Parliament Hill.

Yet, that’s just what one Liberal MP did in a recent Twitter exchange with a Conservative counterpart, which she’s now apologizing for following public blowback.

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Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes took a run at Conservative MP Maxime Bernier over the weekend for comments he made about the budget. “Please check your privilege and be quiet,” Caesar-Chavannes posted after telling him he was contributing to racism.

Bernier, a former Conservative leadership candidate and well-known free-market advocate, was initially responding to comments posted by Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen, who himself celebrated the budget as “a historic budget for racialized Canadians.” Hussen went on to applaud budget additions that included $19 million for black youth and mental health and $31.8 million for racialized newcomer women.