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Threats, harassment and online hate driving women out of politics, MPs warn - National | Globalnews.ca

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Longtime Liberal MP Pam Damoff is leaving politics when the next federal election is called.

Damoff said harassment escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Statistics show fewer than one in three elected officials at the federal level are female.

In last month’s provincial election in Ontario , only 32.2 per cent of the 768 candidates were women.

Report compiled insights from 21 women who had left politics, many felt their skills were underutilized.

“They wanted to be useful,” says Marie Malavoy , president of the Women’s Committee of the Cercle des ex-parlementaires de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec .