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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.