Justin Trudeau's tears - Gayles.tv LGTB + Television

The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, breaks into tears while apologizing to the LGTBQ2 community in the Ottawa Parliament

GAYLES.TV.- Last Tuesday, in a parliamentary session in Ottawa, the prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau he apologized on behalf of the State with the LGTBQ2 community for decades of discrimination, persecution and repression of the collective. Addressing MPs, he said: “For the oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and dual-spirit communities, we apologize. On behalf of the government, parliament and the people of Canada :. We were wrong. We're sorry. Y we will never allow this to happen again"And without being able to contain the emotion, he began to cry.

Trudeau's apology referred especially to the people who were part of the federal public service, the Canadian army, the federal police and the spy agency between the years 1950 and 1990. Government authorities applied themselves to eradicating homosexual officials, which came to be called "Abnormal sexuality", because they considered that they were susceptible to Soviet blackmail during the period of the Cold War.

A report from Eagle Canada of the 2016 explains that the federal police drew up a list of 9.000 suspects of homosexuality only in the Ottawa area. It also describes how they developed and used a contraption known as "Fruit machine" that scanned the retina to suspects of equivocal sexual orientation. It was observed if his pupils reacted to the observation of gay pornography.

All this repression resulted in dismissals, denunciations, rejections of professional promotions and other measures that ended up having a very negative impact on the lives of thousands of people, people who ended up losing their livelihood in the best of cases and at worst his life.

Recently the Canadian government has announced that it will allocate more than 78 million dollarss in response to the lawsuit filed by thousands of individuals affected by these measures.

The decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada dates from 1969. Two years before Pierre Trudeau, who would end up becoming prime minister and father of Justin Trudeau, presented the first bill in 1967 and pronounced the famous phrase "There is no place for the State in the beds of the nation" But it was still many years before the discriminatory policies of the government were finalized in an order to the army urging them to stop persecuting gays and lesbians. And that did not arrive until 1992, for that reason, although later, the tears of Trudeau are thanked today.