goes to MP Joe Volpe for calling members of the Conservatives KKK for holding up a picture of the Western Standard Libranos poster. (click on the PM program of CBC Politics, go to around the 41 min. mark)
notwithstanding that they don't have the cowl and their cape, the Klan looks like its still very much alive.
I try to give Members of Parliament respect but Volpe is a jerk. Everytime I here this guy speak it is like finger nails on a chalk board. I have no idea why the Liberals let him represent them.
Nealenews has posted this story as well with comments from Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer.
...To hear a Minister of the Crown make that kind of insinuation about anybody, whether they are his political opponents or not, is reprehensible, said Jaffer. Volpe is trivializing the hatred, violence, and murder practiced by the Klan. He has sunk to a new low one unbefitting a minister of the Crown, and unbefitting a parliamentarian. It is beyond irresponsible to suggest that any parliamentarian advocates torture and murder of innocent people. I realize that my political opponents are in the smear game, but they have crossed the line. They have not insulted me or my party; they have insulted all African-Canadians and all other minorities who have been targets of this racist and murderous organization.
I hope that Joe Volpe would do the honourable thing as soon as possible, and fully retract and apologize for his remarks, Jaffer said. He deals with a ministry that must be seen as above politics, and this type of demagoguery only further undermines his credibility.
