I have to say that this is getting silly. The government will end up apologizing to everyone for everything, I guess. For old laws, practices or actions. How far back should the government go?
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Ottawa to formally apologize to LGBT community for past wrongs
Critics say apology to public servants, RCMP officers, military members fired for sexuality comes too late
By John Paul Tasker, CBC News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will apologize to members of the LGBT community for actions the government took against thousands of workers in the Canadian military and public service in the Cold War era, a top gay MP said Wednesday.
The apology will be made before the end of the year, Alberta Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault told reporters, and will address a number of longstanding grievances.
"We're going to work closely with members of all facets from the LGBTQ community to make sure that our apology is comprehensive and that it takes into account a broad range of the stories and the lived experience of Canadians," said Boissonnault, who also serves as Trudeau's LGBTQ2 advisor.
From the 1950s to the 1990s, thousands of federal workers were fired because of their sexuality as part of a "national security" purge.
LGBT people were thought of being particularly vulnerable to blackmail and intimidation by Soviet spies and other foreign enemies. The Canadian government went so far as to develop a homosexuality test — a so-called "fruit machine" — which measured arousal to pornography to help weed out all suspected gay people.
Some gay members of the Canadian Armed Forces were also discharged for "psychopathic personality with abnormal sexuality."
The rest here.
Ottawa to formally apologize to LGBT community for past wrongs - Politics - CBC News
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Ottawa to formally apologize to LGBT community for past wrongs
Critics say apology to public servants, RCMP officers, military members fired for sexuality comes too late
By John Paul Tasker, CBC News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will apologize to members of the LGBT community for actions the government took against thousands of workers in the Canadian military and public service in the Cold War era, a top gay MP said Wednesday.
The apology will be made before the end of the year, Alberta Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault told reporters, and will address a number of longstanding grievances.
"We're going to work closely with members of all facets from the LGBTQ community to make sure that our apology is comprehensive and that it takes into account a broad range of the stories and the lived experience of Canadians," said Boissonnault, who also serves as Trudeau's LGBTQ2 advisor.
From the 1950s to the 1990s, thousands of federal workers were fired because of their sexuality as part of a "national security" purge.
LGBT people were thought of being particularly vulnerable to blackmail and intimidation by Soviet spies and other foreign enemies. The Canadian government went so far as to develop a homosexuality test — a so-called "fruit machine" — which measured arousal to pornography to help weed out all suspected gay people.
Some gay members of the Canadian Armed Forces were also discharged for "psychopathic personality with abnormal sexuality."
The rest here.
Ottawa to formally apologize to LGBT community for past wrongs - Politics - CBC News
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