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About 200 people gathered outside the Ontario legislature today to protest the revised sex-education curriculum, while inside Premier Kathleen Wynne was going on the attack against an Opposition critic.

Progressive Conservative Monte McNaughton is openly critical of the updated curriculum and says it’s not the job of the premier — “especially Kathleen Wynne” — to tell parents what is age appropriate for their children.

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Wynne, who is openly gay, responded by pointedly demanding that McNaughton explain why he feels she is not qualified to set standards for kids in schools.

What is it that especially disqualifies me for the job that I’m doing? Is it that I’m a woman? Is it that I’m a mother? Is it that I have a master’s of education?

Staring down McNaughton, Wynne asked if she’s unqualified because she’s a woman, a mother, a former school trustee, a one time school council chair, a former minister of education or that she has a masters of education. According to the preliminary Hansard transcript of her comments, she said:

“What is it that especially disqualifies me for the job that I’m doing? Is it that I’m a woman? Is it that I’m a mother? Is it that I have a master’s of education? Is it that I was a school council chair? Is it that I was the minister of education? What is it exactly that the member opposition thinks disqualifies me from doing the job that I’m doing? What is that?”