CANADA
Calgary Herald
DON BRAID, CALGARY HERALD
There’s really no easy way to begin this strange and powerful story, but here it comes, with a caution to those of delicate feelings.
One day in 2012, David Carter, a man of the church, a former Speaker of the Alberta legislature, walked into a cemetery in Saskatchewan’s Qu’Appelle Valley.
He poured lemon juice on the grave of a former archbishop of the Anglican Church.
Then he drove away, thinking that would satisfy a burning anger that had simmered for 35 years.
But no, Carter soon decided, it wasn’t enough. He turned around and drove back.
This time, he urinated on the grave.
Now 82, David Carter has always been a man of strict rectitude and principle. If you asked me who among all the political people I know might do such a shocking thing, he’d be the very last person I would name.
In a new self-published book (Carter has written almost 20) he says the archbishop sexually abused him at a convention in Minneapolis in 1977.
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