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Former Reform Party leader Preston Manning once said 'homosexuality is destructive to the individual, and in the long run, society.'The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

BY WARREN KINSELLA

August 21, 2017

TORONTO—Pop quiz time. 1. At an election rally, Ku Klux Klan member J. F. Bryant is joined onstage by a confident young lawyer, who rails against those who speak other languages. Who was the young lawyer? 2. A politician travels abroad to meet a murderous, anti-Semitic fascist boss. The polit...

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