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Manitoba Tory leader: happy holidays,
Manitoba Tory leader: happy holidays,
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Manitoba Tory leader: happy holidays, “infidel atheists”!

Updated on Monday, December 2 2013. In what may turn out to be the most awkward holiday greeting of 2013, watch Manitoba Progressive Conservative Leader (and former MP) Brian Pallister wish everybody a happy holidays, including “all you infidel atheists out there.” After that, check out his sort-of apology on Monday, courtesy of the Winnipeg Free Press. […]

November 29, 2013

Updated on Monday, December 2 2013.

In what may turn out to be the most awkward holiday greeting of 2013, watch Manitoba Progressive Conservative Leader (and former MP) Brian Pallister wish everybody a happy holidays, including “all you infidel atheists out there.” After that, check out his sort-of apology on Monday, courtesy of the Winnipeg Free Press.

 

 

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