In a World of 'Gotcha' Stories, You Need a Perfect Record

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As for Kennerd, the Conservative candidate in Winnipeg South Centre, his "gotcha" moment arrived Monday morning when the CBC reported that nine years ago Kennerd wrote a letter to the Winnipeg School Division angrily denouncing the division's attempts to use the classroom to deal with discrimination against gay and lesbian students.

In the letter, dated April 22, 1999, the CBC quotes Kennerd as charging that the division's "diversity education committee" was "driven by a radical social agenda, not an educational one," and that it had an "infatuation with social engineering."

"I'm shocked that this sort of point of view still existed in 1999," researcher Ryan Schultz was quoted as telling the CBC. "My personal question to the candidate would be: Do you still espouse these views, and if so, why?"

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In a World of 'Gotcha' Stories, You Need a Perfect Record

Some say you can tell a lot about a person by the friends they choose.

If that's true, I'm not sure what my longtime friendships with Lesley Hughes and Trevor Kennerd say about me.

Lesley and Trevor are polar oppos...

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