Conservative MP caught on video calling Saskatchewan provincial politician

Moose Jaw MP Tom Lukiwski is threatening legal action over a video in which he is accused of calling a provincial candidate an “NDP whore”.

Lukiwski, the member for Moose Jaw-Lake Centre-Lanigan, was thanking supporters when he turned to provincial politics, urging the crowd to help get Moose Jaw Wakamow MLA Greg Lawrence re-elected.

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”. “He’s too important of an MLA to let him go down to an NDP whore just because of a bad boundary”. Djuric says she and others in the newsroom were told not to release or discuss the video.

Lukiwski could not immediately be reached for comment and the Moose Jaw Times Herald said it planned to issue a statement. Mr. Lukiwski strongly denies that he used the word in question.

The New Democrats have nominated Karen Purdy as their candidate in the constituency.

“If you want to hear “whore” you can hear it. If you want to hear “horde”, you’ll hear that”, he told CBC.

Lawrence said he “can’t be responsible for what” Lukiwski says, adding “that’s not how I think”.

“This is the first time I saw the video, so I don’t have her phone number, so I’ll have to try and contact her on Facebook or something like that”, he said.

“I choose personal integrity and strong ethics over deception and censorship”, Mickey Djuric wrote in a blog post on Thursday.

Djuric said she was assured earlier this month that the MJTH would publish her story but on Tuesday the publication “unexpectedly and surprisingly changed their mind”.

Lukiwski is no stranger to controversy over comments he’s made on camera.

“I’m ashamed for the comments”.

Lukiwski has apologized before for derogatory comments he made about homosexuals in another video made in 1991 that surfaced in 2007. If I could take those comments back I would … “They do not reflect the type of person that I am”. “After much heart-felt thinking, I have chosen to resign this morning from the Moose Jaw Times-Herald, as a journalist”.