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It’s not entirely clear what Celina Caesar-Chavannes, MP for the Ontario riding Whitby, meant when she told Conservative MP Maxime Bernier on social media to “please check your privilege and be quiet.”

Did she mean white privilege? Male privilege? Both? Something else?

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It doesn’t really matter, because all are toxic and unacceptable suggestions coming from a federal MP.

Caesar-Chavannes was unhappy over Bernier’s comments on the recent federal budget, which cast a broad, progressive, social justice and feminist “lens” on public spending.

When Bernier suggested the budget should not be a “racialized” document but instead strive to be colour blind, Caesar-Chavannes made the “check your privilege” tweet.

MPs, and all Canadians, are constitutionally, and in every other way, entitled to free speech.