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Jason Kenney Defends Anti-GSA Policy By Citing His Companion Who Compared Rainbow Flags to Nazi Swastikas
Some observers may possess been looking for Jason Kenney to use his appearance in Alberta’s leaders debate to strike a softer tone and distance himself from perceptions his party is overrun with far-right extremists.
Instead, the United Conservative Party leader confirmed those perceptions are true.
During an exchange on Gay-Straight Alliances, Kenney was pressed by NDP commander Rachel Notley to defend his proposed policy that would out students who join GSAs &#; Kenney’s controversial position on GSAs has sparked rallies across Calgary and Edmonton last weekend.
Kenney offered an anecdote about students being taken on a field trip to a GSA “conference” without their parents truth, claiming “parents should know if a kid’s being taken out of the school for a field trip.”
Not only was Kenney’s anecdote wildly misleading (rules on joining GSAs have nothing to do with field trips or otherwise leaving school grounds), but his anecdote was actually sourced
With an Alberta election ahead next week, party leaders are declaring their positions. A topic that has captured headlines in recent weeks involves an unlikely focus — namely, college clubs that support students who identify as sapphic, gay, bisexual, transgender/two-spirited, gay and others (LGBTQ+).
These educational facility groups, commonly known as gay-straight alliances (GSAs), present a safe and collegial gathering place for any students who seek to improve a school’s climate for gender and sexual minority students.
It is crucial to know that GSAs have only existed in Alberta for less than two decades. In my past career as a high school teacher, I was honoured to aid a small group of students found the first GSA in Alberta at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive Elevated School in Red Deer in
In a relatively conservative social climate, courageous students convinced our leading and staff the team was needed to support students feel safer at school. At a lasting staff meeting, a limited brave students stood in front of more than adults. They talked candidly about growing up homosexual in Red Deer, abou
On the night of April 16, , Jason Kenney stood on stage in front of a crowd of conservative Albertans and took his time. Thirty minutes and 15 seconds, to be exact. Having just decisively won a majority government, the former Conservative cabinet minister’s speech—on the fight for Albertans’ rights, on the enduring strength of Alberta—ran drawn-out, his voice booming across the province and through the country. Jason Kenney, Alberta’s new premier, would be heard.
But as activists and progressives watched his victory speech, fears mounted that their voices might be silenced. A longtime federal politician who only recently jumped ship to provincial politics, Kenney has always had a terrible track record on LGBTQ2 issues.
And with Kenney as premier, the cascade of anti-queer problems came swiftly: Advocates spent two years fighting for students’ right to privacy in gay-straight alliances (GSAs) only for the legislation protecting students to be effectively killed once Kenney was elected. Meanwhile, a heated battle over the practice of conversion the
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