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OTTAWA — Conservative MP Maxime Bernier has reproached a fellow MP for being too focused on the colour of her skin.

In a Twitter message published Saturday afternoon, he accused Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes, who is black, of thinking “the world revolves around (her) skin colour.”

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Bernier was reacting to a Globe and Mail article in which the author says Caesar-Chavannes “focuses less on policy and more on personal matters.”

Bernier quoted that passage in his tweet, adding that it’s an approach vastly different from his own.

“That’s the main difference between us,” he wrote.

“You think the world revolves around your skin colour. My goal is to bring better policies to all Canadians. That’s an MP’s job.”