The federal Liberal candidate in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond is showing his anti-family colours, with a slam against his Conservative opponent over her opposition to Bill C-250, Svend Robinson’s private members bill that added “sexual orientation” to a list of protected categories in Canada’s hate crimes laws.
Raymond Chan wants Stephen Harper to remove Alice Wong as the Conservative candidate in Richmond because of her past ties to the CASJAFVA, the Canadian Alliance for Social Justice and Family Values Association. CASJAFVA is one of the country’s largest and most vocal Chinese-Canadian support groups for traditional family values.
Wong spoke alongside the Association’s K-John Cheung at an August 2003 rally against Bill C-250, in which Cheung criticized Robinson’s bill because it didn’t define “sexual orientation.”
“On its face, [that term] could include heterosexuality, homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, transexuality, pedophilia, polygamy, polyandry, bestiality, sadistic-sexuality, masochistic-sexuality and incestuous sexuality,” Cheung said at the time. Wong has attended several CASJAFVA fundraising dinners and other events.
Chan, the Liberal candidate, says CASJAFVA is “an extreme fundamentalist organization.
“It is intolerable that any individual seeking public office would provide financial support for such extreme activities.”
Harper isn’t likely to act on Chan’s demand though. He addressed a CASJAFVA function himself in March of 2003.
Public date: October 1st, 2008
