“I became president of the pro-life group in my campus and helped to lead an ultimately successful initiative petition, which led to a referendum which overturned the first gay spousal law in North America.” In a 2000 speech to Canadian Alliance supporters, Kenney took credit for organizing a petition calling for a referendum to repeal a historic “gay spousal law”:
Over the weekend, Twitter user Kyle Morrow published a “leaked audio” recording he said shows Kenney “brag about overturning a spousal law that permitted gay men to visit their dying partners in the hospital during the AIDS epidemic.” A newly surfaced audio recording showing Jason Kenney bragged about leading the push to repeal a law extending hospital visitation rights to gay couples has left one of the United Conservative Party leader’s favourite talking points in tatters.
