When New Democrat MP Irene Mathyssen saw that Conservative MP James Moore was looking at a photo of a bikini-clad woman while sitting in the House of Commons and noticed that the image was visible not just to members of the House but also to visitors in the gallery, she rose and made a brief, composed complaint about it. Liberal MP Karen Redman rose and supported Mathyssen. The allegation was that Moore was looking at a scantily clad woman on his laptop. Before saner heads prevailed, mass murderer Marc Lepine’s name was bandied about such was the sin of leering at a computer.

Mr. Moore protested that it was his girl friend in a bikini but didn’t want to name her because she hadn’t signed on to the political game. Very noble. Now questions are being asked as to whether or not Moore told the truth.

The question that comes to my mind is this – whose business is it how Moore gets his jollies? So what if it was an unclad woman he didn’t even know? This reminds me of the time then NDP MLA Joy McPhail flung the model penis into the legislative mix in Victoria.

This tells us more about Irene Mathyssen and Karen Redman than it does about Moore for if a man looking at the image of a woman of scant attire is to somehow evoke memories of Marc Lepine these two women need help.

This is typical of some women – they don’t realize that in making this sort of connection is an insult to those Lepine killed and is using their names such that it trivializes that horrible event.

If Mr. Moore was, while watching his lady, playing with himself I suppose that might be a question of decorum the Speaker might want to deal with.

He wasn’t and the ladies in question have made idiots of themselves and insulted the memories of fourteen murdered women in the bargain.