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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
He wants to remove mandatory GSA from schools. Pretty anti-gay there.
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He wants to eliminate protections for participants in GSAs that prevent that participation from being disclosed to parents by teachers or administrators of the school, is, I think, the accurate characterization.
And again, this would have been an easy debate to dodge. Simply exclude that change from the reversions of NDP policy and you don't even start a political issue about this. Given that reality, it appears to be a deliberate provocation.
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Have we forgotten the the UPCs aren't just the PCs - that they absorbed the socially conservative and rural Wildrose Party? The fire and brimstone candidates coming out the woodwork shouldn't be a surprise to anybody - these people represent a significant part of the grassroots of the UPC.
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I don't know that it's a mortal shock, although the fact that there are so many such instances is somewhat surprising to me given the obvious political expediency of avoiding this stuff and how clear a win the UCP would be in line for if they'd managed to do it.
Speaking only for myself, I saw Kenny's statement of "we'll nip this in the bud before it becomes an issue", and said, "okay, I'll wait and see how that goes". And well, I have waited, I've seen, and he and his cohort have failed. Either they're not trying to keep this element of their party suppressed, or, perhaps more horrifyingly, they
are trying, and this much awfulness is still slipping through the cracks in spite of their honest efforts.