The Asian Star October 10 2015

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Issue 37 Saturday, October 10, 2015

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Views on gays lead to controversy for two Punjabi candidates NDP candidate apologizes for former views on gay marriage, homosexuality

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n NDP candidate who Singh Kahlon is one of the party’s once told a TV protop candidates in the Greater Togram same-sex marronto Area, running in the hotly riage could lead to polygamy and contested riding of Brampton East. public nudity, is offering an apolHe was the campaign chair to MPP ogy and says he no longer holds Jagmeet Singh, deputy leader of the those views. Harbaljit Singh provincial NDP. On Tuesday, in Kahlon also said during the 2005 nearby Mississauga-Malton, Jagdish Harbaljit Singh Kahlon OMNI TV show that there is no Grewal was dropped as the official research that gays are born homosexual. candidate for the Conservative Party for “I do not hold these views and apologize comments he made about conversion theraunreservedly for making these comments py for gay youth.Grewal stood by his position in 2005,” Singh Kahlon said in a statement. that parents of gays should have the “right “I want to reaffirm my commitment to bring them back to their straight life,” to protecting human rights for all people and has said he will continue to run. Singh in all circumstances without exception.” Continued on page 6

Punjabi candidate who spoke of therapies to turn gay youth straight dumped by Tories

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he Conservatives have dumped Jagdish Grewal, a candidate in suburban Toronto who defended therapies that attempt to turn gays straight and who penned an editorial that referred to homosexuality as “unnatural behaviour” and heterosexuals as “normal.” “These comments do not reflect the views of the Conservative Party of Canada. We believe that all Canadians — regardless of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation — deserve to be treated with respect and dignity,” the Conservative Party said in a statement. “Mr. Grewal (pictured) is no longer an official candidate for the Conservative Party.” Grew-

al, running in Mississauga-Malton, wrote an editorial in the Punjabi Post earlier this year entitled “Is it wrong for a homosexual to become a normal person?” He describes an NDP private member’s bill passed unanimously in the Ontario legisContinued on page 6

Powerfully polite but result-oriented Mrs. Nina Grewal

South Asian values are Conservative values, Harper claims in Surrey Shruti Prakash Joshi Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in Surrey on Thursday, this time specifically to meet South Asian media and to attend a rally. The round table was organized at a warehouse in Surrey where he answered

select and already submitted questions. In his opening remarks to the gathered news persons, Harper acknowledged that during the campaign and previously he has had the opportunity to meet with the so called cul-

tural media. “The reason I call it the socalled cultural media is because you hear this expression in mainstream media but in our experience organizations like yourContinued on page 7

Nina Grewal

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