{"id":1076,"date":"2012-09-27T13:53:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:18","slug":"does-jason-kenney-know-if-youre-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2012\/does-jason-kenney-know-if-youre-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Jason Kenney know if you&#8217;re gay?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Does Jason Kenney know if you&#8217;re gay?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>MPM student Emile Scheffel writes in <em>iPolitics <\/em>today on the controversy swirling around&nbsp;Minister of Citizenship, Immigration&nbsp;and Multiculturalism&nbsp;Jason Kenney&#8217;s email newsletter on government programs for gay and lesbian refugees.&nbsp; Many recipients of the unsolicited newsletter wondered how the Government of Canada knew they were gay, and Opposition critics have denounced what they see as government intrusion into citizens&#8217; private lives.&nbsp; But Emile argues there really is no controversy:&nbsp; Recipients were mailed the newsletter because they had already expressed an interest in&nbsp;issues pertinent to the gay community&nbsp;by signing their email addresses to an online petition to Kenney about gay rights and immigration.&nbsp; To those who wonder how the immigration minister knows their sexual orientation, Emile writes, &#8220;here&#8217;s the answer: he doesn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There is no way of knowing which of the people who signed the petition to Kenney are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, queer, or multi-spirited. All we know about them \u2013 all Kenney knows about them \u2013 is they care about GLBTQ issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/2012\/09\/27\/furor-over-kenneys-mailing-list-a-tempest-in-a-teacup\/\">http:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/2012\/09\/27\/furor-over-kenneys-mailing-list-a-tempest-in-a-teacup\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPM student Emile Scheffel writes in iPolitics today on the controversy swirling around&nbsp;Minister of Citizenship, Immigration&nbsp;and Multiculturalism&nbsp;Jason Kenney&#8217;s email newsletter on government programs for gay and lesbian refugees.&nbsp; Many recipients of the unsolicited newsletter wondered how the Government of Canada knew they were gay, and Opposition critics have denounced what they see as government intrusion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}