Article: The exasperation of Vic Toews; In an amazingly frank interview, the Alliance Justice critic tars social conservatives as fratricidal.(Canada)(Interview)(Illustration)

Stephen Harper was not available for comment on the July 12 Ontario court decision ordering governments to institute homosexual marriage. Or anything else. He was on vacation. When an Alliance spokesman, Jaroslav Baran, was asked two weeks ago whether the Opposition leader was in the country, the reply was ambiguous: "He's on vacation." Mr. Baran directed me to call Justice

critic Vic Toews in his Manitoba riding of Provencher.

Mr. Baran provided copies of two statements on the ruling by Mr. Toews, the rural Manitoba MP who was once a provincial justice minister. On July 24, Mr. Toews came out strongly against the ruling in an op-ed for the National ...

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