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NDP threatens Family Coalition Party with legal action for 'hate literature' mail drop

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TORONTO, October 26, 2012,  – An MPP who sponsored what critics call the “bathroom bill” was irked by a mail drop in her riding last Saturday that questioned her leadership and called for a repeal of the bill. NDP Member of Provincial Parliament Cheri DiNovo   has demanded  an apology from the Family Coalition Party of Ontario and has threatened them with legal action for what she called a “transphobic and hateful piece of literature”. The brochure  features a picture of  a stick-figure man peering over a wall at a stick-figure little girl  in pigtails with the words “Repeal the Bathroom Bill”. Two dozen people handed out about 2,500 brochures on Bloor West in DiNovo’s riding of Parkdale-High Park . The brochure states that “DiNovo’s new ‘Bathroom Bill’ will give men who dress like women access to girl’s washrooms, public, showers, and pool changerooms.” “Maybe it’s time to ask her…Cheri, What were you thinking?” Bill 33, an Act that ...