The comments Mary Simon received on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram evolved from barbs about her role into a torrent of racist and misogynistic abuse
After decades in the public eye, Mary Simon says she is used to constructive criticism, including on her social-media accounts as Canada’s first Indigenous Governor-General.
This week, Ms. Simon decided that enough was enough and turned off all the comments on all her social-media accounts. Speaking in a drawing room, looking out on Rideau Hall’s snow-covered gardens , she says there is a big a difference between critical comments about her role and the sustained personal harassment that chips away at people’s resilience and erodes their confidence.
Among the many ambassadors present was Adriana Solano Laclé of Costa Rica who explained that last year her country passed a law making it a criminal offence to make misogynistic insults and threats toward women in politics, including candidates, on social media.
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