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A topless woman protesting the Conservative government’s anti-terror bill was ejected from the House of Commons on Monday during a discussion about honouring Vietnamese refugees.

The protester, Neda Topaloski with the Canadian wing of the international Femen movement, was in the sitting in public gallery, with two guards standing nearby on either side of her, she said. One of the security guards stepped out briefly, so seeing an opportunity, she took off her shirt. The officers gave chase and Ms. Topaloski ran about the gallery, screaming: “C-51 is war on freedom.”

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Then Liberal MP Joyce Murray tweeted that a “tattooed, bare-breasted young” protester had been dragged out of the House of Commons.

Ms. Topaloski only has a “tiny” tattoo on her arm. She thinks the MP was referring to “C-51 State Terrorism” written in bold black letters on her chest.

As Ms. Topaloski was carried out, the in-house camera stayed fixed on the startled parliamentarians. So no footage of the incident surfaced Monday, making it largely a disappointment for Ms. Topaloski’s Femen — which thrives on photos of their trademark topless protests appearing in the media.

“It was a miscalculation,” she said. “I thought it would be better to do it in the morning because then it would be in the news all day … But there was no media.”