28-11-2017 22:42 via theguardian.com

Justin Trudeau apologizes for Canada's program targeting LGBTQ civil servants

From the 50s to the 90s, the government monitored and interrogated civil servants in what the prime minister calls ‘state-sponsored, systemic oppression’Justin Trudeau has apologized for a decades-long campaign by previous governments to rid the military and public service of LGBTQ people, calling the cold war crackdown a “collective shame.”From the 1950s to the early 1990s, the Canadian government monitored and interrogated civil servants who were believed to be gay or t
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