Diane Holmes represents downtown, which is the most liberal part of Ottawa. The suburbs and rural areas would freak at any of this.
What's wrong with the gays paying for their own parade?
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Why would a parade cost millions of dollars?
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
What were the pride festival promoters planning to do with $20,000,000? Hire interior decorators to redesign the city of Ottawa? That's an awful lot of money - more money than would be necessary to stage any festival I've ever heard of.
TWENTY MILLION?
What kind of a festival are we talking about here?
EMERGENCY FUNDING?
Uhhhh, Go slow when you explain the 'emergency' nature of a 'festival' of any sort... Is the funnel cake franchise in trouble? The Leather Booth ready to topple? What sort of 'emergency' could require TWENTY MILLION?
O Canaduh!
Why should the government support homosexual propaganda and public indecency?
http://www.ottawa.ca/city_hall/mayor_council/councillors/index_en.html
The city councillors' e-mail addresses and phone numbers are on that site. Find out where they stood on the issue and congratulate the councillors who went against the motion. I'll see if I can find the list of who voted for and against.
BTW, according to the city documents, it was a $20,000 grant, not a $20M grant.
Twenty million dollars for a Gay Pride parade? I don't even want to know.
I always hate when they try to compare the Ottawa event to the Toronto or Montreal or New York events (as some mention in the documents). They really should be comparing to similar-sized cities.
In Canada, they are Calgary and Edmonton.
In the US, they are Austin, Birmingham, Buffalo, Charlotte, Columbus, Hartford, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville, Norfolk, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Portland, Rochester, Salt Lake City and San Antonio.
20 million dollars would make one hell of a party
May this be the start of a trend. "Gay" pride parads cancelled all over the place. Nice.
Oh dear! Are they going to cry now since the queers didn't get their way?
For a bloody parade?
$20 mil for queers and perverts? Glad I don't live in Ottawa.
$20 million? That's a HUGE piece of tax dollars for a parade. What's the justification?
The source article at the link has been CORRECTED. Originally it said 20 million was denied, the amount is actually 20 thousand:
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Pride Festival Denied Funding Request
Josh Pringle
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Organizers of Ottawa-Gatineau Pride Week say the future of the festival is in jeopardy.
The comments were made after a City of Ottawa committee rejected a request for 20 thousand dollars in emergency funding.
The Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee did approve 30-thousand dollars in city services and debt forgiveness.
Vice-Chair of the Pride Week Committee Tamara Stammis says the board will have to meet to decide their next step.
Stammis says the cash request was an important element for the festival.
Councillor Diane Holmes tells CFRA News "is this a matter of prejudice or not? I certainly hope not. But it certainly doesn't look good when we have supported and provided for two festivals that were also in sort of extreme circumstances."
The City of Ottawa recently provided funding to the Canadian Tulip Festival and the Franco-Ontarien festival.