P.E.I.'s Progressive Conservative premier has removed one of his MLAs from all legislative standing committees, a day after Tyler DesRoches came under fire for comments he made about female paramedics.
Premier Dennis King said in a statement Thursday that the comments the MLA from Summerside-Wilmot made were "inappropriate, wrong and won't be tolerated."
What did he say?
"Not to be sexist or anything like that, is there a stronger recruitment towards males or females?" said the MLA, a volunteer firefighter and thus a medical first responder, asked.
"I just notice a lot more females in the profession now and we get a lot of calls for lift assist because — don't get me wrong, they're great, some of the women that are doing it are unbelievable — but I went to a lift assist the other day because both the females that were working the bus were 105 pounds and the man was 300 pounds and there was no way they were going to get him up."
VAGINA POWERS ACTIVATE!
Female paramedics, female politicians, and the P.E.I. Coalition for Women in Government weigh in on this guy who asked a simple question. Instead of providing an answer and demonstrating how two tiny, weak women can assist a morbidly obese man, all we get is a tsunami of emotion and bullshit.
Of course, the idiot caved and apologized.