Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly has directed her department to summon Russia's ambassador over social media postings against LGBTQ2S+ people.
In recent days, Russia's embassy in Ottawa posted on Twitter and Telegram that the West is imposing on Russia's family values, and that families can only include a man, a woman and children.
Canada was among 33 countries that signed a joint statement condemning the legislation, prompting the embassy to push back. In reaction to the first tweet, Sports Minister Pascale St-Onge, who is lesbian, decried Russia's treatment of LGBTQ people as "a disgrace and an attack on basic human rights." "I think what they're trying to communicate with this is that the Romanovs would not have had five kids if they were gay. I think that's literally what they're trying to say," she said."Unsurprisingly, the Russians have once again chosen hateful propaganda," wrote spokeswoman Maeva Proteau.
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