Make the opposition parties, and their supporters, happy by tabling legislation that all potential candidates and all elected official must publicly declare any inappropriate comments they might have made about a member of one of the designated groups in the last 20 years. Punishment could range from public humiliation in the town square to forehead tatooing. Maybe similar legislation could be applied to "leaders" in these designated groups when they make inappropriate remarks.
Harper's handling of gay slur MP is key: pollster
Updated Sun. Apr. 6 2008 7:51 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Prime Minister Stephen Harper must make it clear he rejects an anti-gay slur uttered by one of his MPs if he doesn't want to see Conservative party support drop, says a pollster.
Nik Nanos, president of Nanos Research, told CTV's Question Period on Sunday that the Conservatives have retained support so far by shifting the focus away from social issues.
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 How about the MP who called gay people disease-spreading "faggots"? Damn those turnip-wagon Tory hicks and their knee-jerk prairie bigotry. Did they add the part about how it was 17 years ago and he was letting off steam in an unguarded.. MORE...
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There has to be a statute of limitations past which remarks uttered long ago in a moment of regrettable stupidity no longer come back to haunt. Saskatchewan MP Tom Lukiwski said some hurtful things about gays, while the province's premier.. 
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