Canada MP sorry for Catherine McKenna 'climate Barbie' remark

[TomSea]

Canada MP sorry for Catherine McKenna 'climate Barbie' remark
    21 September 2017   

Catherine McKenna said sexist comments would not stop women taking part in politics

A Canadian Conservative MP has apologised after referring to environment minister Catherine McKenna as "climate Barbie".

Gerry Ritz made the comment on Twitter during an online exchange over a climate-change report.

The tweet provoked a furious response from Liberal MPs and others, and was later deleted.

Read more at: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41343006

I think we are being a tad bit too sensitive.  It's just a tweet; things like this of course, shouldn't be said on the floor of congress or parliament.

[Guivre]

Earlier this week:

Digital diplomacy’s downsides

Perhaps we all underestimated the extent to which international leaders would use Twitter diplomacy not to promote international relations but rather to shore up domestic support. Whether it's threatening to pull out of NAFTA or chiding China on trade, Donald Trump's foreign policy tweets seem directed more at his electoral base rather than foreign ministries. Social media is a more effective tool of politics than diplomacy, which, again, has had a deleterious effect. What many e-diplomacy advocates thought would become platforms promoting openness and goodwill have in fact become forums to air grievances, settle scores and stoke nationalistic impulses.

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/digital-diplomacy-s-downsides

IDK, it still might be good to see what the people power say when they are thinking aloud, such as the MP.