Say No To Racism

Tory committee head should quit over 'racist’ e-mail: Liberals
January 25, 2007 / The Canadian Press

OTTAWA -- Liberals want a Conservative MP to resign as head of the Commons aboriginal affairs committee over his response to a racist e-mail.At issue is a joke e-mail that refers to a native man as `Tonto’ and `chief.’A British Columbia television station reported that Tory MP Colin Mayes received the e-mail and responded with a “good joke.”Mayes didn’t deny the response when questioned, but said he didn’t mean to endorse such humour.Native references have gotten Tories into trouble in the past.Conservative MP Brian Fitzpatrick told a native-organized debate in 2000: “You can’t scalp me because I haven’t got much hair on top of my head.”