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Senate reviews security checks after page protest

OTTAWA—The Senate is reviewing the hiring process and background checks for its page program after 21-year-old Brigette DePape disrupted the Speech from the Throne last week.

“There are those who have characterized what she did as heroic,” Ontario Conservative Senator David Tkachuk told his colleagues in the red-carpeted chamber on Tuesday, according to a news release from his office.

“No. Heroic are the men and women, many of them her age or younger, who serve in Afghanistan, defending the principles and practices of democracy that resulted, most recently, in the election we just had,” Tkachuk said. “What she did was not heroic. She was surrounded not by enemies but by people she could trust not to harm her. People, unlike her, who believe in and adhere to a code of civil behaviour.”

Tkachuk said he and his fellow senators were surprised when DePape, holding a handmade red stop sign painted with the message “Stop Harper,” walked into the middle of the Senate chamber as Governor General David Johnston was delivering the speech last Friday.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1004296--senate-reviews-security-checks-after-page-protest?bn=1

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