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Female Conservative and NDP MPs are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discipline a male Liberal MP who made what they say is an offensive, sexually suggestive remark at a meeting of a House of Commons committee two weeks ago.

The MPs on the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and Security were settling down for their meeting on March 8 when the cellphone of Conservative MP Dianne Watts went off.

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Watts’ daughter was calling and Watts had programmed her phone to sound a jaunty ringtone whenever she called.

But the ringtone prompted Liberal MP Nicola di Iorio to say, “Where’s your pole to slide down on?”

Though the March 8 meeting of the public safety committee was held in camera, the National Post learned of these details earlier in the week from those present at the meeting and, on Thursday, confirmed the account of the meeting with Watts herself. The press and the public are prohibited from attending in camera meetings. Only MPs, their political staff, and House of Commons staff were present.