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Baird calls for Liberal MP Turner to apologize for separatist 'losers' remark

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CALGARY - Environment Minister John Baird says comments from a Liberal MP calling Quebec separatists selfish "losers" stirs up a "hornet's nest of past unity problems."

Baird is calling for Liberal Leader Stephane Dion to rein in outspoken member Garth Turner for the comments made on a blog.

Baird says Turner should apologize for writing about what the Liberal MP called, the "self-aggrandizing, hostile, me-first, greedy, macho, selfish and balkanizing separatist losers in Quebec."

Turner wrote that Dion once stood up to the Quebec separatists, so he should be able to do it again in Alberta, in defending his environmental policies.

Dion said Friday that he had spoken to Turner, who had retracted his statements.

In an interview, Turner said he would not remove the remarks from his blog but would clarify them.

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