After the scathing letter she received on Friday from Conservative Senator Claude Degenais, which was in response to the Senate abolition flier that he received, NDP MP Charmaine Borg decided to move a point of privilege in the Commons, and to claim that Degenais’ letter was somehow misogynistic.
No, seriously.
I’ve read the letter. There is absolutely no gendered language in it. And because it’s in French, that’s quite apparent. In fact, most of the conjugations are in the masculine plural, as he is largely addressing the NDP caucus as a whole (the letter was sent out Hill-wide in response to Borg, not just to her personally). It may have been condescending and rude, but there is no misogyny.