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Only a few months after voting to enact Canada’s first anti-cyberbullying act, actress-turned-Nova Scotia MLA Lenore Zann has employed the new law to launch an investigation against a teenaged constituent she alleges was cyberbullying her on Twitter.

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Ms. Zann’s complaint, made earlier this month to the province’s newly opened CyberSCAN investigation unit, concerned 17-year-old high school student Nick Scissons who, on November 29, tweeted a nude image of Ms. Zann pulled from her 2008 performance on the Showtime drama series The L Word.

The scene in question takes place in the public shower of a women’s prison, and depicts a fully nude Ms. Zann intimidating a fellow inmate with a shiv.

Upon seeing the image, which was sent with the message “what happened to the old Lenore?” Ms. Zann tweeted back demanding its removal.

When Mr. Scissons ignored the request and was instead “rude and obnoxious and bullying” said Ms. Zann, she tweeted “Perhaps youve missed the new Federal legislation … Distribution of this image falls under the Criminal code. It has been reported.”