From the Toronto Star:
Harper speech stirs wide outcry:
Comments during gay marriage debate roundly condemned
Insulting `to play politics with an ancient historical wrong'
"Let us not forget it was the Liberal party that said none is too many when it came to Jews fleeing from Hitler. It was the Liberal party that interned Japanese Canadians in camps on Canada's West Coast, an act Pierre Trudeau refused to apologize or make restitution for, leaving it to Brian Mulroney to see justice done," Harper said.
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A range of groups responded yesterday with fury, saying Harper went too far. A flurry of outraged news releases descended on media offices from the National Association of Japanese Canadians, the Chinese Canadian National Council, the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, the Canadian Buddhists Civil Liberties Association, the World Sikh Organization, the British Columbia Unitarian Church and the Muslim Canadian Congress.
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http://tinyurl.com/4ndfcHarper's done it now. None of these instances have anything to do with allowing gay marriage. All it does is highlight instances when the Liberal Party has fallen down on the job of protecting human rights.
It's a pride thing now for them, I can't see any but the most hard-core anti-gay MP's in the party voting against gay marriage now.
At least I hope so.
Thoughts?