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   From: ConsRCons@govt.cda   
      
   Oh, well .... how many 'REAL Women' can there be in Canada anyway?  :->   
   A few votes lost here and there..... here and there ....   
      
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   The Canadian Press August 8, 2013   
      
      
   Vast majority of Canadians support Ottawa's stance on gay rights: Baird   
      
      
   Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is brushing off criticism of   
   Ottawa's defence of sexual minorities' rights in other countries, saying   
   the vast majority of Canadians support the government's stance despite   
   claims from a conservative women's group to the contrary.   
      
   "We have put a great deal of emphasis on promoting Canadian values,"   
   Baird told The Canadian Press from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Thursday.   
      
   "With respect to sexual minorities, we've focused on three things. One,   
   against the criminalization of sexual minorities, two, against violence,   
   and three, against the death penalty — and I think 99.9 per cent of   
   Canadians support us on those three issues."   
      
   Baird also said that political and religious freedoms and women's   
   rights', including vocal opposition to rape as a weapon of war and early   
   enforced marriage, are similar Canadian values that the government   
   promotes around the world.   
      
   "I don't know anyone in my party that supports the death penalty for   
   sexual minorities. Not a single person," Baird said, referring to   
   reports that Uganda has considered the death penalty for homosexual   
   relations.   
      
   His comments come in response to an attack from a conservative women's   
   group, which accused Baird of using taxpayers money to promote "his own   
   personal agenda" and attempting to set standards of the laws of foreign   
   countries.   
      
   REAL Women of Canada took issue with Baird's comments in a recent   
   interview with The Canadian Press, in which he said the Harper   
   government had worked behind the scenes to persuade Russia not to follow   
   through with a controversial anti-gay law.   
      
   Baird told The Canadian Press on Aug. 1 that he is deeply concerned that   
   the new Russian law will be enforced during the 2014 Winter Olympics in   
   Sochi and called the law an ”incitement to intolerance, which breeds   
   hate. And intolerance and hate breed violence.''   
      
   The law, signed by President Vladimir Putin in June, bans "propaganda of   
   non-traditional sexual relations" and imposes fines on those holding gay   
   pride rallies.   
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   But 'Greg Carr' might want to note Baird's comment:   
   "I don't know anyone in my party that supports the death penalty for   
   sexual minorities. Not a single person," Baird said.   
      
   Are you going to write and correct him, 'Carr'?   
      
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