Lukiwski is heard to say: “We’ve got to get Greg back elected”.
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“Watching the video, it’s tough to determine, you can certainly if a somebody wanted to hear the word whore they can think that’s what I said, but I absolutely did not say that”. “I know we will be hearing much more from you in the future”, Heather McIntyre, the provincial NDP candidate for Regina Pasqua, wrote on Twitter. “I didn’t know whether the NDP candidate was a male or a female”.
While Lawrence said he didn’t hear the comment at the time, he acknowledged it sounded like Lukiwski said whore.
Lukiwski flatly denies using the word, and instead says he referred to an “NDP horde”.
Djuric says part of the reason she believes Djuric said what he said is that it wouldn’t be the first time he made controversial comments.
The reporter, Mickey Djuric, said on her personal blog that she heard “whore” and quit her job at the Moose Jaw Times Herald because the paper refused to run her story. When his reporter spoke to Lukiwski and the politician insisted the word he said was “horde”, Slater said he and his superiors paused to consider what to do.
“What’s disappointing is when anybody uses derogatory terms like that, in any context, especially toward somebody else … that’s running”, he said. “I would give anything in the world to take those comments back”, he said in a statement in 2008.
“This is something I will not apologize for because I didn’t say it. I did not call the NDP candidate a whore. I have reached out to the NDP candidate, Ms. Purdy, to assure her that no such insult was ever used nor intended”. “I’m disappointed that an MP would say something like this”.
Lukiwski was first elected as an MP in 2004.
Uploaded on April 3, 2008, the following is Tom Lukiwski in a taped exchange in 1991 in which he made discriminatory and hateful comments towards homosexuals.
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Link: “There is no doubt in my mind that he said ‘whore, ‘” Purdy said. In 2008, a video shot in 1991 surfaced that showed Lukiwski, then a political organizer for the Progressive Conservative Party, addressing an unknown camera operator saying, “There’s A’s and there’s B’s”.
