ADVERTISEMENTCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered an official apology for his country’s past persecution of LGBTQ public servants on Tuesday. The address delivered in the House of Commons comes just over a week after Trudeau announced he would apologize for Canada’s dehumanizing treatment of LGBTQ service members and other government employees throughout the second half of the 20th century. “Imagine, if you will, being told that the very country you had willingly laid down your life to defend doesn’t want you, doesn’t accept you, sees you as defective, sees you as a threat to our national security,” Trudeau said Tuesday, speaking in both French and English. “Not because you can’t do the job or because you lack patriotism or courage, no, but because of who you are as a person and because of who your sexual partners are.”Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marches in Toronto's Pride Parade in June 2016.

Source: Huffington Post November 28, 2017 21:50 UTC