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extended to cover social media as well. Perez was not against the use of
Twitter during council meetings, but rather wished to ensure the appropriateness of the language used by council members on Twitter while in session. Perez’s intervention resulted in a new policy on Twitter use by councillors, allowing councillors to use Twitter while council is in session, but with caution against using insulting or "unparliamentary" language as set out in a list of 225 words and phrases banned by the
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posted insulting comments on his
Twitter account about the Union Montréal members during a council meeting, some of which were directed at Perez. The comments provoked Perez to bring the issue to the attention of council so that an examination of the rules governing council's proceedings should be
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Before being elected, Perez was a practicing lawyer and co-founder of the
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