The ever-so-honorable Liberal elitist, Reg Alcock of the brilliant Paul Martin “Team Martin” cabinet, was forced to apologize after severely embarrassing himself by suggesting that the Liberal Party people were of a higher gene pool than the rest of us. I blogged about this over the course of the past few days.
Treasury Board President Reg Alcock has apologized to a Conservative MP who accused him of racism for saying the Liberals would look “a little higher up the gene pool” if they wanted to recruit a new ambassador from opposition ranks.
Alcock denied his comment was racist, however, and rejected Inky Mark’s call for his resignation.
“I am writing to apologize for the ‘gene pool’ comment,” wrote Alcock in the three-sentence letter he sent Thursday to Mark, an MP from Manitoba who was born in China.
“I was offended by your public slurs of myself during the preceding two days and reacted in an aside during a conversation on the issue. Nonetheless, two wrongs don’t make a right and I want you to know that I regret the comment and apologize for it.”
On Tuesday, Mark said a Liberal minister called him to offer an ambassadorship in return for giving up his seat in the House of Commons, thus making the Liberals’ minority government a little more secure. He would not name the cabinet minister.
Alcock, who is the minister responsible for Manitoba as well as Treasury Board president, denied that any such offer was made to Mark.
“Frankly, if I was going to recruit somebody, I’d go a little higher up the gene pool,” Alcock told a Canadian Press reporter during a taped interview Wednesday.
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