The Minister of Families, Nahanni Fontaine, behaved like a petulant teenager during the budget debate and crossed a red line that must be addressed and denounced by House Speaker Tom Lindsay and all Manitoba MLAs. In Episode 23 we have the audio from the Legislature and describe her unacceptable antics.
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22.18 Part 2- The Manitoba Conservatives compiled video clips of how NDP House leader Nahanni Fontaine interrupted PC Leader Obby Khan in the House last week, including repeatedly bellowing “Stop Talking About The Women In My Caucus” when Khan opined on the performance of her fellow cabinet members.
Fontaine was trying to run interference for the likes of her BFF, Addictions Minister Bernadette Smith, and Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara.
The self-styled “Squad” have two things in common – they all represent impoverished and struggling north end and inner city areas, and all three have failed in their portfolios.
Just ask the kids who died in CFS care, the addicts who can’t find treatment beds, and the patients who’ve died in ERs and on waiting lists.
But as you’ll hear, the thinly-veiled man-hating of Fontaine was the least of the offensive behavior from the Legislature’s Queen of Mean. The reel ,posted by the Tories online, included video from the just-concluded budget debate, showing the contempt Fontaine has for the very office she holds as Government House leader.
While the opposition urged the Kinew NDP to amend the budget and raise the tax-free income bracket limit to bring relief to Manitoba’s families, Fontaine started watching a Hollywood big budget movie while the House was in session. With her dirty high heels perched on the seat next to her.
As you’ll hear, this was an act of contempt towards the entire House.
Flin Flon MLA Tom Lindsay is the Speaker and has already been dragged by Kinew for daring to try to curtail the inflammatory accusations like “transphobe”, “racist”, and “bigot” hurled by the NDP at Khan and opposition members.
Lindsay is going to have to decide if he will upbraid Fontaine for her lack of decorum and force her to apologize, or be intimidated by her into silence, the way she wants to silence all criticism of the women in the NDP caucus.
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