[LINK] "Sun Media to apologize to Justin Trudeau for Ezra Levant rant"

[rfmcdonald]

Canada.com's Ishmael N. Daro reports that Sun Media will issue an apology for the disgusting tirade made by Ezra Levant on their television network against the parents of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau. Daro's article goes on to note that Levant has made other off-colour remarks, most recently condemning Romani as a people of thieves.

Quebecor, the parent company of Sun News Network and the Sun Media newspaper chain, will issue an apology Monday evening to federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau over an on-air tirade by columnist Ezra Levant broadcast earlier this month.

According to CTV News Ottawa bureau chief Robert Fife, Quebecor chairperson Brian Mulroney reached out to Liberal Party brass over the weekend over the incident. The cable news channel will make the apology on Levant’s 8 p.m. ET Sun News Network show, saying his rant was in poor taste and should not have aired. It will apologize to Sun News Network viewers, Trudeau and his family.

Levant took to his Sun News program The Source Sept. 15 and railed against Trudeau for appearing in a wedding photo in which he kissed the bride on the cheek. The photo had been cleared with the family, including the groom, but Levant suggested Trudeau had forced his way into the scene and stolen the kiss for his own publicity.

“Justin Trudeau thinks he’s in the movie Wedding Crashers, that sex comedy where slutty men go to weddings uninvited to bed the maids of honour. But even they had enough class to give the bride herself a pass,” Levant said in the five-minute rant.

He also called Trudeau’s father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, a “slut” who “banged anyone” and mocked his mother Margaret in similar terms.

Trudeau responded to Levant’s comments by vowing to boycott all employees of Sun News and Sun Media, including the non-partisan reporting staff, although he had been avoiding questions from the news channel’s correspondents for some time already.