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Originally Posted by Slava
Great post and it leads me to my struggle in deciding who to vote for. It’s not lost on me that basically everyone I know with financial credentials is voting UCP. I also believe that equality and acceptance has never been better in Canada; we’ve made enormous leaps in the past decade or two.
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Alberta after the election will be what it was before, and what it was under the PCs: One of the best places in the Western world for Gays and Minorities. Which is to say, one of the best places in the entirety of human history for those two groups whose actual human rights are enshrined in federal law that 99% of the populace supports. A school having the OPTION to inform parents of their child joining a group is not a human rights violation. We leave all kinds of things up to the discretion of our capable educators, from benign student issues all the way to reporting possible sexual or physical assault of students by family to the police. If someone outs a student who joined this group to their belligerent and homophobic parents that seems more on that educator and not this law change. Conversely, if I was a parent who had a child join this group for at-risk, possibly suicidal students and they ended up taking their own life and I was forbidden to be notified that they were at risk I would be absolutely livid. This isn't as one sided as the hyperbolic alarmist crew likes to pretend it is but that's their schtick.