After '' Lunch with Jan Wong '' was retired in 2002 , Wong moved on to other journalistic roles with '' The Globe and Mail '' . In 2006 , Wong attracted attention by imitating the work of Barbara Ehrenreich and going undercover as a cleaning lady in wealthy Toronto homes . While employed by the Globe and Mail as a reporter , Jan Wong impersonated a maid , and then wrote about her experiences in a five-part series on low-income living . The newspaper published the stories in the spring of 2006 . Members of a Markham family sued the newspaper and Wong , alleging they suffered " significant embarrassment and mental distress . " Wong published the article " Get under the desk " in '' The Globe and Mail '' on September 16 , 2006 . In it , the author drew a link between the actions of Marc Lépine , Valery Fabrikant and Kimveer Gill , assassins of the shootings of the École Polytechnique , Concordia University and Dawson College respectively , and the existence in Quebec of bill 101 , the " decades-long linguistic struggle " . She implied a relation between the fact that the three were not old-stock Québécois and the murders they committed , since they were , according to Wong , alienated in a Quebec society concerned with " racial purity "
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