WATCH: Manitoba Liberals call Wab Kinew, NDP candidate, to step down after tweets uncovered

WINNIPEG — Wab Kinew, Manitoba NDP candidate for Fort Rouge, is being called into question once again, after a number of tweets, purportedly from Kinew’s account, have been uncovered.

The dates of the tweets range from 2009 to 2012. His alleged tweets are critical about women, his current party leader Greg Selinger and children in the troubled Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat.

Kinew previously apologized for rap lyrics he called “misogynistic and homophobic” during his music career. He also said he apologized for his words in his 2015 memoir, published before he entered politics.

Manitoba Liberals said on Friday that apology does not extend to his most recent tweets and they are calling on Kinew to resign his candidacy.

“This isn’t about his lyrics anymore,” Noel Bernier, Manitoba Liberal candidate for St. John’s said.

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“I haven’t heard him apologize to the children of Attawapiskat. I haven’t heard him apologize to women for his incredibly sexist remarks in some of those tweets.”

PHOTO GALLERY: Some of NDP candidate Wab Kinew’s controversial tweets

“I take full responsibility. I make no excuses. I know that words can harm,” Kinew said at an event Friday afternoon in Fort Rouge where he was joined by Premier Greg Selinger.

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“I am mocking myself for being able to live a high quality of life while at the same time little brothers and sisters in communities like the one I started out in live in abject poverty,” Kinew said when asked of a tweet from 2010 below.

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“What I think we see today is a person who has gone down the road of reconciliation,” Premier Greg Selinger said at Friday’s event.

RELATED: Southdale MLA candidate, Jamie Hall resigns after sexist tweets

Social media and a candidate’s past have become a hot button topic in the lead-up to the provincial election in April. Former Manitoba Liberal candidate Jamie Hall resigned his candidacy in early March after questionable tweets of his own were found by NDP staffers.

Liberal leader Rana Bokhari called Hall’s comments “disgusting” shortly after his resignation.

Premier Greg Selinger and Kinew spoke Friday afternoon.