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I am an atheist and a humanist. I lean left on most political and fiscal issues. But when Liberal and NDP MPs stormed out of a meeting of the Committee on the Status of Women in protest of the appointment of a pro-life woman as its chair, I was appalled.

It is bad enough that both the Liberal and NDP parties have barred progressive Canadians from running as their candidates if they disagree with the legal status quo of abortion on demand through all nine months. But now the Liberals want to micro-manage even the voices of the Opposition? Parliament’s rules dictate that the chair of this committee be appointed by the leader of the Opposition. That ought to mean at least one voice that the Liberals do not have the right to control.

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“The Liberal members of the committee cannot support the Opposition putting forward someone like Rachael Harder, whose voting record is opposed to where women stand,” declared Liberal MP and committee vice-chair Pam Damoff, when she led the September 26th walkout.