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After posting a 14-year-old video of Andrew Scheer speaking out against same-sex marriage, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said his own views have evolved and the Conservative leader needs to clarify whether his have as well.

In a 2005 speech during debate over the Civil Marriage Act in the House of Commons, Scheer said gay and lesbian unions lack “the complementarity of the sexes.”

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“They have many of the collateral features of marriage, but they do not have its inherent feature. As they cannot commit to the natural procreation of children, they cannot therefore be married,” Scheer said.

“Just because you call a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg. If this bill passes, governments and individual Canadians will be forced to call a tail a leg, nothing more.”

Goodale shared the video to his Twitter page on Thursday. He called on Scheer to “end his lifelong boycott of Pride events and explain whether he would still deny same-sex couples the right to marry.”