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MPs demand apology from Conservative MP over ‘constant, demeaning’ remarks to Minister Joly<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple MPs who are members of the Procedure and House Affairs Committee demanded an apology from Alberta Conservative MP Michael Cooper after a comment he made Thursday about Minister of Foreign Affairs M\u00e9lanie Joly’s toughness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liberal and NDP MPs are calling out Conservative MP Michael Coope<\/strong>r over what they described as a “shameful” and “completely unacceptable” comment he made to Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly during a hearing on foreign interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael J. Cooper, Conservative MP represents the riding of St. Albert\u2014Edmonton, Alberta. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With apologies to the weasel family!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“You’ve talked tough. You’ve talked tough with your Beijing counterpart, so you say. You even stared into his eyes, I’m sure he was very intimidated<\/em>,” said Cooper in questioning Joly during a combative and intense meeting of the Procedure and House Affairs Committee (PROC) on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding, Joly said: “Well, Mr. Cooper, you would know China because you went to China as a parliamentarian<\/a> in the past. And so therefore, I think you would understand that when we fall into too much partisanship, we’re falling into China’s trap.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooper did not apologize before the meeting ended. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Con MP Cooper on the verge of a smirk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Court Painter relaxing in his new leisure suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MPs demand apology from Conservative MP over ‘constant, demeaning’ remarks to Minister Joly Multiple MPs who are members of the Procedure and House Affairs Committee demanded an apology from Alberta Conservative MP Michael Cooper after a comment he made Thursday about Minister of Foreign Affairs M\u00e9lanie Joly’s toughness. Liberal and NDP MPs are calling out … Continue reading “Weasel of the Week Award…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22747"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22768,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747\/revisions\/22768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}