“We are committed to apologise in an inclusive and meaningful manner before the end of 2017,” he said. In March – frustrated by the government’s continued delays in addressing the issue – former public servants and military members filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Montreal. The class action is seeking at least C$600m damages for what lawyers called the LGBT purge, which saw thousands of people expelled from the military and public service by a federal government that considered homosexuals a threat to national security. “It was a brutal, senseless, wasteful, harsh and cruel campaign for which the government should abjectly apologise,” he said. That’s mooseshit Read moreHe welcomed the news that the federal government was moving forward with an apology, calling it long overdue.

Source: The Guardian May 18, 2017 00:22 UTC