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Ruby Dhalla prepares to fight
back
WSN Network
TORONTO:
Canadian MP of Punjabi origin, Ruby Dhalla, is facing trouble these
days. The first Sikh woman elected to Canadian Parliament is reeling
under allegations that she and her family mistreated caregivers they
employed. Liberal Dhalla, 35, represents
Brampton-
Springdale, courted trouble after caregiver women immigrants from
Philippines
described to a Commons committee how they were mistreated and
underpaid.
Her resignation was promptly
accepted by
party leader Michael Ignatieff. Dhall was holding charge of youth
and multiculturalism critic and there is little clarity on whether
she will get back her job. In the initial days of the controversy,
she portrayed herself as a victim but now intends to fight back.
“It’s been very difficult. It almost seems like a horrible nightmare
and the reason it’s been so difficult is that the people, the women
who came out with the allegations, the caregivers, those are the
very women that I’ve been trying to help my whole life. ... I know
the experience first-hand because I’ve lived it,” she said in a
recent interview in Canadian media.
20
May 2009
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