A Liberal backbencher has issued an apology after police were called on a mother of an autistic child who threatened a protest at his office, just not to the woman herself.
After Premier Kathleen Wynne told him to apologize, Bob Delaney said in a statement Tuesday, four days after police knocked on Melanie Palaypayon's door, that she ``deserves a full apology, which I offer.''
Only, Palaypayon says she is still waiting for Delaney's call.
She says she is thankful he is apologizing, but it's not ``from the heart'' if it's only through a statement and not to her personally.
Palaypayon says she doesn't want to seem negative, but if he was truly sincere, he wouldn't have waited for the premier to tell him to say sorry.
Palaypayon is one of many parents upset about a government decision to defund Intensive Behavioural Intervention for autistic children five and older, and had told Delaney's constituency office she would ``squat'' outside and hand out flyers in protest.
The next morning police showed up at her home.
A staff member who answered the phone at Delaney's office said the MPP was unavailable, but pointed to a statement on Delaney's personal website saying his office only asked police for advice and ``never instructed or asked the officers to take any action at all.''