NDP apologizes for embellishing CV of MP who visited Las Vegas during campaign
Posted May 10, 2011 04:16:58 PM.
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KINGSTON, Ont. – The NDP is apologizing for a biography that stated a rookie MP obtained a diploma from an Ontario college — when, in fact, she hadn’t.
The party says a staffer modified the online biography for Ruth Ellen Brosseau without her permission and it regrets the error.
Brosseau made national headlines for vacationing in Las Vegas during the election campaign.
The NDP released the statement after St. Lawrence College said Brosseau never earned a diploma in advertising and integrated marketing communications from the school — even though it’s included in her NDP biography.
A spokesman for the Kingston school says she is not a graduate.
The NDP says Brosseau never actually told them she had earned a diploma from the school, and only stated that she had studied there. The party says she is two credits shy from completing the program.
The 27-year-old cruised to a stunning election-night victory in the central Quebec seat of Berthier-Maskinonge, even though she never set foot in the riding.
The NDP has acknowledged that she must improve her French skills to represent a riding that is 98-per-cent francophone.
Brosseau lives in the Ottawa area, some 300 kilometres away from the region.
