A Conservative candidate in the Lower Mainland is again under fire.
Two videos surfaced on Friday featuring Burnaby North香蕉视频直播揝eymour hopeful Heather Leung talking about LGBTQ 2+ rights.
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A second video from 2011, shot by the Burnaby Now newspaper, shows her speaking out against a policy passed by the local school board to curb bullying of gay students.
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Svend Robinson, who is the NDP candidate in the riding and Canada香蕉视频直播檚 first openly gay MP 香蕉视频直播� called on Conservative leader Andrew Scheer to kick her out of the party.
I must have been injected with that special serum that made me gay...but Leung will save me from my perverted homosexual lifestyle by conversion therapy....No, doesn't support this hatred that tells LGBT youth they are evil. Shame!
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香蕉视频直播淗ow can Scheer allow Heather Leung to run as a candidate under the Conservative banner when her words show her hatred for LGBTQ2S Canadians?香蕉视频直播� he asked in a news release Friday.
Black Press Media has reached out to Leung for comment.
Ask about her comments while campaigning in Toronto, Scheer said: 香蕉视频直播淥ur party stands for inclusiveness and the rights of all Canadians, including LGBT Canadians, and will always do.香蕉视频直播� He added he had not seen the video.
Leung has been been called out before during this campaign.
Comedian and political satirist Rick Mercer drew attention to a post on her campaign Facebook page last month, showing him and one of his quotes that falsely made him appear to endorse the Tories. A party official said at the time the person who posted it was not involved on the local campaign.
Weeks earlier, another photo was posted to the same Facebook page showing Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau on the edge of a cliff, with his campaign slogan, 香蕉视频直播淐HOOSE FORWARD.香蕉视频直播�
- with a file from The Canadian Press
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