Neda Topaloski briefly interrupted the business of the House of Commons yesterday—forever entered into history as “[disturbance in gallery]“—when she yelled out from the visitors’ gallery with her objections to Bill C-51, the government’s anti-terrorism legislation. Protests in the galleries are an occasional occurrence, but Topaloski’s was widely noted for its topless nature—Topaloski not only shouting, but bearing her chest, on which was written “C-51: State Terrorism.” “It’s really scary to see that our system is using a real threat of terrorism that does exist in society currently to justify and excuse it’s totalitarian methods of repression,” she says of …read more
Source: Macleans
