Member of Parliament for Hull-Aylmer, Greg Fergus, delivered poignant testimony in response to protesters who have brandished racist symbols in recent days in Ottawa.
Posted yesterday at 11:12 p.m.
While the hon. member is used to rising in the House to encourage Canadians to celebrate Black History Month in February, he acknowledged on Wednesday that “we are not living in a normal time”. In a statement to his fellow MPs, the man who is also the chairman of the caucus of black parliamentarians and parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister found it difficult to explain that Confederate flags, a symbol of slavery in the United States, ended up on the Parliament Hill.