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CHIMO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-24-11 09:16 PM
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Kent backtracks over Tory candidate in Tamil Tigers row
Conservative cabinet minister Peter Kent has reversed course and fallen back into line behind Stephen Harper after criticizing his own party for recruiting a candidate with apparent Tamil Tiger sympathies.

“I regret any embarrassment that my remarks may have caused the Prime Minister,” Mr. Kent said in a statement sent to The Globe and Mail after Mr. Harper defended the candidate, Gavan Paranchothy, during a weekend campaign stop in Mississauga, Ont.

Mr. Kent, who spent decades as a high-profile television journalist, revised his opinion Saturday after Mr. Harper said Mr. Paranchothy’s “position is real clear, and for a long time he’s been rejecting the Tamil Tigers,” as the Conservatives have done.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/kent-backtracks-over-tory-candidate-in-tamil-tigers-row/article1997118/
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