Minister of Foreign Affairs (Menlu) Canada ordered to summon the Russian ambassador to Canada, Oleg Stepanov, because of a series of anti-national “hate” tweets.LGBTQincluding one addressed to a Canadian minister who openly declared herself a lesbian.
Embassy Russia in Ottawa, Canada has been posting anti-LGBTQ messages on Twitter in recent days, after Russian lawmakers approved a law banning all forms of LGBTQ “propaganda”.
“Unsurprisingly, Russia has again opted for hate propaganda,” Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly’s deputy director of communications, Emily Williams, said in a statement. AFPTuesday (29/11/2022).
“This is an attack on Canada’s values of acceptance and tolerance. Secretary Joly has ordered Global Affairs Canada to summon the Russian Ambassador to tell him all of this,” Williams added.
The tweet from the Russian Embassy was accompanied by an illustration of a photo of a rainbow flag covered in a red outline inside a red circle, indicating that it was prohibited, next to the caption: “It’s all about the family. The family is men, women and children.
Russian Embassy also hit back at Canadian Sports Minister Pascale St-Onge, who is openly lesbian, after she spoke out against ‘homophobic Russian propaganda’, asking her to ‘explore and explain how did you come into this world ?”
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