![]() And thanks to what I’ll call the Chinese election scandal, I learned what that was. Previously, I just had some guy who’d look out the window and send me an email. I was checking the weather back home earlier this week. As for “sexist,” during political disputes, that’s even more overplayed than “racist.” Anyway, it’s not like Cooper, whatever he was at, was committing the even greater horror of “mansplaining.” They’re all strong and brave until a rhetorical mouse enters the room, and then they jump on their chairs. Surely one of the four or five most powerful people in all of Canada, the country’s minister of foreign affairs, can withstand a daisy-petal of sarcasm. ![]() For this trivial barb, he was set upon by two female Liberal parliamentarians for being “sexist” and for subjecting the minister to - it gets more terrible - “microaggressions.”Īnd what, pray tell, is wrong with a couple of microaggressions? Would they have preferred macroaggressions? A microaggression is a very small, a tiny, a minute, infinitesimal aggression. Or so Conservative MP Michael Cooper wryly indicated. ![]() ![]() The clear inference being that if she hadn’t looked him in the eye, the caution would have been brushed away. In committee, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly informed everyone that she looked her Chinese counterpart in the eye and said, “First we will never tolerate any form of foreign interference … in our democracy and internal affairs, and second we will never tolerate any form of breach of our sovereignty.” This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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