at 5:14 on April 29, 2009, EDT.
Julie Couillard’s eye-catching dress auctioned for $1,000 at charity event Couillard, a photogenic brunette, was prominently displayed on the front pages of numerous newspapers wearing the revealing frock, which ended up fetching $1,000 on Tuesday night. But the amount fell far below the $5,000 Couillard had hoped the dress would get – because of the controversy her wearing it had created, particularly after her relationship with ex-cabinet minister Bernier ended. “I would have hoped to at least collect $5,000, but hey, at the end of the day it’s a thousand and I’m so happy that it was a woman that bought it,” said Couillard, who was in charge of the charity event that raised more than $31,000. “What happened with this dress is just the living proof that sexism is still out there and very healthy and it’s only politically correct to just say that we have equality among the sexes – but we don’t.”
“It’s still a man’s world,” she added.