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Provincial NDP Leader Cam Broten said “whore” is “sure what it sounded like to me on the video.”

Broten called for Lukiwski’s resignation and wrote to federal Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose, asking she remove Lukiwski from caucus.

“These types of comments are so unacceptable, are so appalling, and are so disgusting,” Broten said Thursday.

“I know what I heard in that video.

“When we look at (Lukiwski’s) track record, when you have someone who, in the same context, surrounded by party faithful and supporters, has said some pretty outrageous things in that sort of party atmosphere … to me it doesn’t make sense that you’d be calling one person a horde. I don’t buy it. I simply don’t buy it.”

In a statement posted to the Conservative website, interim leader of the Conservative Party, Rona Ambrose, said she had “spoken with Tom Lukiwski in regards to the comments some are attributing to him which appeared on the internet earlier today.”

“I have seen the video in question and it is very difficult to determine what was said. Mr. Lukiwski strongly denies that he used the word in question. He has also reached out to the NDP candidate in order to assure her that no such insult was ever used or intended.

“Let me be clear. If derogatory language had been used, any member of Caucus would have already been removed.

“I have accepted Mr. Lukiwski’s explanation in regards to these comments.”

This is not the first time Lukiwski has found himself in hot water over comments caught on camera. In 2008, a video shot in 1991 surfaced that showed Lukiwski, then a political organizer for the Progressive Conservative Party, addressing an unknown camera operator saying, “There’s A’s and there’s B’s. The A’s are guys like me, the B’s are homosexual faggots with dirt on their fingernails that transmit diseases,” Lukiwski says in that video.