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| News Date | Tuesday, April 8, 2008 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday that he won't discipline MP Tom Lukiwski for the anti-gay comments he made on a recently discovered 1991 videotape.
Meanwhile, Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall -- seen on the same video making fun of former premier Roy Romanow -- told the province's legislature he's sorry, saying "sometimes it's hard to know where you draw the line."
During Monday's question period, the prime minister told the House of Commons he believed the member's sincere apology was enough.
"It is my view that when such an apology is sought, such an apology should be accepted," said Harper, responding to Liberal and Conservative demands that Lukiwski be stripped of his role as a parliamentary secretary.
The comments surfaced last week, found on a video made 17 years ago at a Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative party office. Lukiwski, who is seen on the video calling homosexuals "faggots with dirt under their fingernails that transmit diseases," quickly apologized, saying those comments don't reflect his views now or at the time.
"The comments I made . . . should not be tolerated in any society," he told Parliament on Friday. "They should not be tolerated today. They should not have been tolerated in 1991. They should not have been tolerated in years previous to that."
The tape also shows the current Saskatchewan premier, Brad Wall, making fun of Roy Romanow, the premier at the time.
MP Bill Siksay, who first exposed the video, said the Conservative government's failure to censure Lukiwski exposes a deeper acceptance of homophobia within the party.
"As Canadians know, the Conservatives have never supported our full equality," said Siksay, who is gay. "We fear the attitude in question shows their true colours."
Siksay demanded Harper take action to prove to Canadians that such views do not reflect those held by the Conservatives. He said measures such as protecting gender identity and expression under the Canadian Human Rights A |
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