Joly seeks reprimand of Russian ambassador as embassy tweets against LGBTQ community
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has directed her department to summon Russia’s ambassador over social media postings against LGBTQ people.
The first post appeared Nov. 24, just days after five people were killed in a shooting at a gay bar in Colorado. “Our country is not interfering in the Canadian domestic affairs,” the embassy claimed, seeking a “corresponding respectful attitude toward the legislative process in Russia.” The Russian embassy responded with a photo of the Russian imperial Romanov family, asking St-Onge to “please explore and explain how you appeared in this world.”
“We absolutely can’t tolerate this rhetoric, and even less the subsequent comment on Minister St-Onge’s response. This is an attack on the Canadian values of acceptance and tolerance.”
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