The federal Liberal human resources critic says Tory MP Gerald Keddy should apologize after he reportedly referred to some unemployed Haligonians as "no-good bastards." (Handout)

HALIFAX — The federal Liberal human resources critic says Tory MP Gerald Keddy should apologize after he reportedly referred to some unemployed Haligonians as “no-good bastards.”

Michael Savage says he was shocked after the Conservative MP from Nova Scotia made the comments in a Halifax newspaper.

According to today’s Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Keddy said the province’s farms hire migrant labourers because Nova Scotians won’t do it, referring to them as, “all those no-good bastards sitting on the sidewalk in Halifax that can’t get work.”

Keddy was not immediately available for comment.

Savage says the comments are particularly offensive today on the 20th anniversary of an all-party House of Commons resolution to end child poverty.

Click here to read the Halifax Chronicle-Herald article