Kent backtracks over Tory candidate in Tamil Tigers row

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Conservative cabinet minister Peter Kent has reversed course and fallen back into line behind Stephen Harper after criticizing his own party for recruiting a candidate with apparent Tamil Tiger sympathies.

“I regret any embarrassment that my remarks may have caused the Prime Minister,” Mr. Kent said in a statement sent to The Globe and Mail after Mr. Harper defended the candidate, Gavan Paranchothy, during a weekend campaign stop in Mississauga, Ont.

Mr. Kent, who spent decades as a high-profile television journalist, revised his opinion Saturday after Mr. Harper said Mr. Paranchothy’s “position is real clear, and for a long time he’s been rejecting the Tamil Tigers,” as the Conservatives have done.

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