Speaker calls on MP to withdraw ‘bathtub’ comment Liberals said was homophobic [Video]

The Speaker of the House of Commons has asked Conservative MP Garnett Genuis to retract a comment he made last week that the Liberals said was homophobic.

Genuis rejected the claim that what he said was meant as a homophobic remark. He argued that he was simply criticizing the government’s controversial purchase of a luxury apartment for its consul general in New York. 

Speaker Greg Fergus said Tuesday that while he was “prepared to take [Genuis] at his word,” he was asking the MP to withdraw his remark “at the earliest possible opportunity.”

“I would invite him to reflect upon how his comments could have been interpreted and to recognize that they provoked disorder,” Fergus said.

WATCH | House Speaker says Conservative MP’s bathtub comments ‘provoked disorder’: House Speaker Greg Fergus rules that Conservative MP Garnett Genuis should withdraw his remarks ‘at the earliest possible opportunity.’ Last week, Genuis denied …