GOODALE: HYPOCRITE WITH SELECTIVE MEMORY

    Considering how often and vociferously the Liberals accuse Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer of intending to legislate on abortion, it always struck me as odd that they never accused him of wanting to roll back same-sex marriage rights. Justin Trudeau’s gang have never met a fear too remote to monger, and while Scheer vows inaction on both fronts, his record is probably more anti-same-sex-marriage than it is anti-abortion.
   The answer seems to be that the Liberals just hadn’t yet been desperate enough. On Thursday morning, with the SNC-Lavalin affair still dominating the headlines, Liberal MP Ralph Goodale tweeted out a 2005 speech in the House of Commons by Scheer and demanded to know “whether he would still deny same-sex couples the right to marry

   But at least we have Scheer's reasons on the record; at least we can understand where he was coming from. We cannot say the same for most Liberal MPs who opposed same-sex marriage in the past, some of whom are still around — MPs like Ralph Goodale, for example. In 1995, he voted against a motion from openly gay Bloc Québécois MP Réal Ménard that simply proposed “the legal recognition of same-sex spouses” — it didn’t even mention the M-word. Four years later, he voted in favour of a Reform MP’s motion stating that “marriage is and should remain the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.”