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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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