Lukiwski denies calling NDP candidate a whore

Speaking by telephone, Luwkiwski admits the video makes it hard to tell what he said.

“Watching the video, it’s tough to determine, you can certainly if a somebody wanted to hear the word whore they can think that’s what I said, but I absolutely did not say that.”

Luwkiski goes on to say he is seeking legal counsel “because this is obviously an attempt to smear my reputation of something that I did not say”.

Lukiwski has apologized before for derogatory comments he made about homosexuals in another video made in 1991 that surfaced in 2007.

That won’t happen this time.

“This is something I will not apologize for because I didn’t say it. I did not call the NDP candidate a whore. I did not even know who the NDP candidate was. I didn’t know whether the NDP candidate was a male or a female.”

A debate immediately emerged on Twitter as to whether he said “whore” or “horde.”

The video is posted on the personal blog of a reporter in Moose Jaw, who says she has resigned from the local paper after it refused to published her story.

Craig Slater, managing editor of the Moose Jaw Times Herald, says the paper sought out Lukiwski to get his side of the story and the MP said he used the word “horde.”

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by Sarah Mills

Lukiwski denies calling NDP candidate a whore

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