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LeDrew, who is a former Toronto mayoral candidate and a former president of the Liberal Party of Canada, hosted an afternoon news show on Toronto cable channel CP24. He recently went on Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss LGBT issues in Canada.

Carlson asked LeDrew to defend a poster seen in an Ontario elementary school advertising LGBT inclusivity training for staff. At one point, he attempted to explain the term Two Spirit by saying it referred to people who are "confused" about their identity.

Two Spirit is a term used for a number of Indigenous gender and sexual identities, referring to a person having both a masculine and a feminine spirit.

"Two Spirit sounds like there's someone they don't know whether they're fish or a fowl, they don't know whether they're frick or frack," LeDrew said. "So they're clearly confused."

LeDrew was suspended by Bell Media for violating CTV's news policy and code of conduct. (Bell Media owns both CP24 and CTV.)

On Monday, however, Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington reported that LeDrew was not coming back.

"I can confirm Stephen LeDrew is no longer with Bell Media," Scott Henderson, the company's vice president of communication, confirmed to BuzzFeed Canada.