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Conservative MP Jansen under fire for comments on LGBTQ2 community

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Participants in a Pride parade are pictured. Conservative MP Tamara Jansen recently made comments about 'lesbian activity' and counselling to stop doing it during debate on Bill C-6, which seeks to ban conversion therapy.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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BY ALICE CHEN

April 28, 2021

Conservative MP Tamara Jansen hasn’t had a good run recently with her comments about LGBTQ2 people. During third reading debate on Bill C-6, which seeks to ban conversion therapy, on April 16, Ms. Jansen seemed to say that it was a good thing that “lesbian activity” could b...

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