Today in the no-spin zone: Sheila Copps and the burqa-wearing oppressed

"How genteel we Canadian women are. Just like our burka-loving sisters in Afghanistan, we are expected to carry out our work quietly in the shadows, because that is our place in politics and in life. Heaven forbid we should be noticed, feted or written about."

— from a column in which Sheila Copps defends a sister whose work was rudely fact-checked