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Catherine Dorion critiquée pour son coton ouaté au Salon bleuhttps://t.co/vuW8BuxNxF pic.twitter.com/XNpbHMKPEy — Eve- Catherine (@EveCatherine_) November 8, 2019

Deputy speaker Chantal Soucy told reporters that “we have a decorum to respect, we reminded her of it several times, it was time to draw a line,” the Presse Canadienne reports. “She was not wearing clothing worthy of an MNA within the Blue Room.”

This isn’t the first (or even the second) time Dorion has been reprimanded in parliament for her clothing. On Oct. 31, she posted a photo on her Facebook account that showed her sitting on a desk in the Red Room, where official ceremonies are usually held, in heels and a skirt, with the caption “Happy Halloween.”

Many reports have said the outfit in the photo is meant to be her halloween costume because Dorion typically avoids more formal attire during parliamentary meetings.

Photo by Catherine Dorion/Facebook

The Liberals filed a complaint to Paradis about Dorion’s photo, claiming that she was not respecting the decorum of the assembly and requesting that he investigate her actions

Dorion said she was “shocked and hurt” by the complaint.

Just last year, Paradis said the National Assembly’s dress code, which is in need of a modernization, will have to be reviewed, in part because of Dorion’s clothing choices. That time, it was for wearing Doc Martens boots.

She told reporters that modernizing the dress code would encourage younger citizens to become more interested in politics.

Paradis said the dress code review would be ““essential and healthy.”

With files from the Presse Canadienne