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Many men, even those who should know better, still don't get it; they still make insensitive and sexist remarks. New Democrat MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor.  Drummond White Drummond White (born March 19, 1951 in Toronto, Ontario) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.  was chairing a committee in Ontario's Queen's Park There are a number of places in the world called Queen's Park or Queens Park. Australia
  • Queens Park, New South Wales
  • Queens Park, Victoria
  • Queens Park, Western Australia
  • Queens Park railway station, Perth
  • Queens Park, Mackay
 in 1992. The committee was listening to a feminist lawyer's submission. Mr. White called the witness, "Mrs." The lawyer said she preferred the honourific "Ms." To which Mr. White responded: "I always want to give the benefit of the doubt."

In 1981, Senator Harry Hays was chair of a parliamentary committee that asked Canadians what they hoped for in a charter of rights. Following a presentation from the National Action Committee on the Status of Women The National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) is a Canadian feminist activist organization. NAC was founded in 1971 as a pressure group to lobby for the implementation of the 167 recommendations made in the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada's 1970 , the Senator said... "I was just wondering why we don't have a section in here for babies, and children. All you girls are going to be working and we're not going to have anybody to look after them."
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Title Annotation:sexist remarks by Canadian politicians
Publication:Canada and the World Backgrounder
Date:Jan 1, 1995
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