On the amateur tape, in which staffers of the Saskatchewan Progressive Conservatives are goofing around for the camera, Lukiwski, who was then the party’s general manager, says: ”There’s A’s and there’s B’s. The A’s are guys like me, the B’s are homosexual faggots with dirt on their fingernails that transmit diseases.”
The tape, recorded the night of the Saskatchewan leaders’ debate during the 1991 election, was released to the media by the provincial NDP on April 3.
”If I could take those comments back, I would,” Lukiwski said April 3. ”I would give anything to take those comments back. They do not reflect the type of person that I am. I can only say that on behalf of myself, my family and my children, I am sorry. I am ashamed.”
In response to the brouhaha, federal opposition MPs urged Prime Minister Stephen Harper to strip Lukiwski of his post as parliamentary secretary in the Conservative caucus.
”The member was 40 years old when he made these hateful remarks,” said Liberal MP Scott Brison. ”Allowing the member to remain an officer of the House of Commons defaces this institution.”
But on April 7, Harper said, ”I believe when such apology and remorse is sought from an individual member, the generous and high-minded thing to do is to accept that apology.”
Uppdaterad 2016-11-16
