Gosh, when we see news like today's out of Canada, it makes us pine for the kind of country America could be — if it weren't currently run by haters and gangsters.
In the House of Commons this afternoon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a formal apology to Canadian gays and lesbians who had suffered discrimination in government, the military, and elsewhere. "It is our collective shame that you were so mistreated," Trudeau said. "And it is our collective shame that this apology took so long — many who suffered are no longer alive to hear these words. And for that, we are truly sorry."
The Trudeau government is putting money where its mouth is, too: $145 million in compensation to gay civil servants who were hounded out of jobs and careers, and $15 million to education about sexual orientation and the law. And the fact that the apology was delivered by the son of the Prime (then Justice) Minister who decriminalized homosexuality back in the '60s is even sweeter.
It's the second apology from Trudeau to a marginalized minority in less than a week, coming on the heels of his emotional mea culpa to Indigenous youth who decades ago had been forced into boarding schools to make them "assimilate."
We can hear the Trumpsters now: Oh, they must be screaming, how politically correct! Justin is such a loser!
You know what? The guy who insulted Native American World War II veterans to their faces yesterday should think twice before criticizing Trudeau. We cats PURR.
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