Notley says the UCP bill, which erased measur brought by NDP to strengthen protectns for gay-straight allianc schools, tipped the balance her cisn to rema lear
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- RACHEL NOTLEY SAYS BILL ON GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC NVCED HER TO STAY AS ALBERTA NDP LEAR
- NDP LLG FOR ACTN TO PROTECT GAY RIGHTS
RACHEL NOTLEY SAYS BILL ON GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC NVCED HER TO STAY AS ALBERTA NDP LEAR
Open this photo gallery:NDP Lear Rachel Notley says the bill, when was troduced, diluted the l to allow schools to lay settg up GSAs and gave them the opportuny to rm parents if their children jo McIntoshAlberta’s Opposn lear told her Edmonton nstuency nomatn meetg on Saturday there was a time right after her party was feated 2019 that she med about steppg Lear Rachel Notley’s one-term ernment had e to an end the electn that gave the Uned Conservativ a majory ernment, and Notley says she nsired whether new blood was she says what tipped the balance her cisn to stay was when the UCP troduced legislatn 2019, which later passed, erasg measur brought by the NDP to strengthen protectns for gay-straight allianc said at the time the bill was troduced that while clud provisns for the allianc, diluted the l to allow schools to lay settg up GSAs and gave them the opportuny to rm parents if their children jo UCP ernment said did not support tomatic parental notifitn, but that the NDP’s legislatn was too blunt an stment and school staff should be able to e their judgement certa Cryrman: Calgary key battleground NDP’s uphill battle to w Alberta electnNotley told Saturday’s nomatn meetg that only mut after the UCP passed Bill 8, which she lled “Bill Hate, ” s members posed for photos to mark the end of the ssn by splashg the reflectg pool on the legislature grounds. ”Gay-straight allianc are clubs meant to prevent bullyg and foster acceptance of LGBTQ kids also told the meetg the UCP “dragged Alberta backwards” by “refg climate actn” and fundg “els war rooms, ” a reference to an arm’s-length agency stuted to unter environmental said the electn loss 2019 was tough, but that Albertans were tellg the party they “had some work to do. The NDP’s current platform ms s ernment to rtorg the rights of youth to form and jo gay-straight allianc wh privacy protectns, to expand verage for trans health re and to velop an clive and affirmg curriculum.
In terms of visibily and reprentatn, the NDP’s Janis Irw (Alberta’s “ML Gay") has a monstrable rerd of advocy on LGBTQ2S+ rights.
She refed to disavow Wildrose ndidate Allan Hunsperger’s 2012 homophobic blog post when he stated that gay people “will suffer the rt of eterny a lake of fire, hell, a place of eternal sufferg. How Alberta vot on May 29 will eher pave the way for LGBTQ2S+ youth to be affirmed their inti or will create a formal pathway for homophobia, biphobia and transphobia the provce.
NDP LLG FOR ACTN TO PROTECT GAY RIGHTS
David Eggen, NDP tn mister at the time, walks wh kids on his way to speak about the passg of Alberta’s gay-straight alliance bill Edmonton 2017.