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Comes a time, as the great Neil Young once sang.

Comes a time to draw the line, to note that not all remarks of a sexual nature are actually sexual in nature, that not all talk that is debatably inappropriate must be censored, that sometimes a bad line is just a bad line and that the #metoo movement does not require every woman to recall and publicize every slight, real or imagined, ever inflicted upon her by every man in the world.

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Sherry Romanado is 43 years old, the mother of two grown soldier sons, a Liberal MP from Quebec, parliamentary secretary to the veterans affairs minister, and, according to her bio, a long-time “engaged citizen.”

Chiefly, it appears, what she must have been engaged in all that long while is burying her head up her own bum.

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How else is it even possible that seven words uttered in her presence seven months ago have caused her “great stress” and “negatively affected” her work environment and, according to CBC sources, had her weeping last week as she recounted the horror to her Liberal caucus mates?