Canada’s foreign minister ordered her officials to summon Russia’s ambassador in Ottawa, Oleg Stepanov, over a series of “hateful” anti-LGBTQ tweets including one aimed at an openly lesbian federal minister. | AFP
The Russian tweets included a photo illustration of a pride flag overlaid with a red line inside a red circle, indicating it was banned, alongside remarks: “It is all about family. Family is a man and a woman and children.”
“We absolutely can’t tolerate this rhetoric and even less the subsequent comments on Minister St-Onge’s response,” Williams said. She had written to the embassy to say: “Russian homophobic propaganda is not welcome here” and that “the treatment of LGBTQ2+ people in Russia is a disgrace and an attack on basic human rights.”
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