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Is housing a human right?
Um, dunno, I’ll be right back…
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A representative for Quebec Housing Minister France-Élaine Duranceau did just that Thursday in response to a request from a reporter — then sent the reporter an email that was meant for a colleague, which confessed to her own strategy of “ghost(ing)” the reporter.
Canadian Press’s Sarah Smellie was polling provincial governments this week as to whether they agreed with the federal housing advocate that shelter is a human right, and whether they intend to introduce legislation to uphold that right.
Most provinces did not answer the questions directly, Smellie wrote on Friday. But Duranceau’s spokesperson inadvertently took things a step further.
When Smellie followed up, a week after receiving no response, Duranceau’s representative inadvertently sent a response meant for a government colleague.
“Do I ghost her again?” she wrote Thursday. “Otherwise, a general response that doesn’t answer, to say housing is a priority for our government?”
After Smellie replied to that email sent by mistake, she again received no reply.
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