Authorities are vowing to tighten security after a topless protester infiltrated the National Assembly posing as a journalist and staged a brief demonstration Thursday in favour of abortion rights.
Neda Topaloski, an activist with the group Femen — an all-female group best known for interrupting public events by flashing people — managed to get within a few feet of minister Hélène David during her brief protest.
Topaloski used a press pass from a magazine called Next to obtain a media accreditation. She blended in with the other reporters until, at one point, she started screaming slogans against Bill 20 — the government’s health-care reform law — and for access to abortion. Then she flashed the cameras.
Health minister Gaetan Barrette insists the law won’t reduce the number of abortions, but some activists are skeptical.
Agencies/Canadajournal
Canada Journal – News of the World Articles and videos to bring you the biggest Canadian news stories from across the country every day
