The ravens all are closing in, there's nowhere you can hide

I guess the combination of “stimulus” and “Gay Pride” was just a little too much for the Homophobe Party of Canada.

Federal Tourism Minister Diane Ablonczy has given up responsibility for overseeing a major stimulus fund that sparked controversy in Conservative Party ranks after it gave $400,000 to a Toronto gay pride celebration in mid-June.

Conservative MP Brad Trost, a critic of the Pride Week grant, is suggesting that the Harper government stripped Ms. Ablonczy of responsibility for the fund as a punishment.

He implied in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com, a socially conservative news service, that Ms. Ablonczy lost control of the $100-million Marquee Tourism Events Program because the gay pride grant embarrassed the Tories.

Or maybe this was more a case of punishment for funding an event in Toronto, which seems to be equally offensive to the government.

 

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