Posted on 11/30/2024 5:37:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
CBC News is reporting that the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the small town of Emo to pay damages after failing to hoist an “LGBTQ2 rainbow flag” in celebration of Pride Month. One problem is that the town of fewer than 2000 inhabitants does not have a flagpole (though you could presumably “show the flag” in other ways).
The National Post reports, that there has been a lengthy arbitration process between the tribunal and the town.
In a decision handed down last week, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario found that Emo, its mayor, and two councilors violated the Ontario Human Rights Code. The tribunal admitted in a later opinion that “the record indicated the Township did not receive many requests for declarations or proclamations or requests for display of a flag.”
Indeed, in a single 12-month period, they received only four — two from Borderland Pride.
Emo does not have a central flagpole, other than the Canadian flag over the front door of the Emo Municipal Office.
One issue that factored greatly in the tribunal hearings occurred during the debate over the flag proposal, which the council rejected by a vote of three to two. In the meeting. Mayor Harold McQuaker stated, “There’s no flag being flown for the other side of the coin … there’s no flags being flown for the straight people.”
Doug Judson, a lawyer and a member of Borderland Pride’s board of directors, said that “the important thing we were seeking here was validation … as 2SLGBTQA plus people.”
The tribunal ruled that Borderland Pride will be awarded $15,000, with $10,000 coming from the township and $5,000 from Emo mayor Harold McQuaker.
At first, the fine against “McQuaker” in the town of “Emo” for failing to hoist an “LGBTQ2 rainbow flag” on a non-existent flagpole seemed too contrived.
However, the mayor of Emo is a McQuaker, and the Canadian press is standing by the story.
For years, the Canadian human rights tribunals have been the spearhead of the anti-free speech movement. We have previously discussed the tribunals (here, here, and here) in such controversies.
Not only must the town pay the fines, but McQuaker and Emo’s chief administrative officer were ordered to complete an online course called “Human Rights 101” and “provide proof of completion … to Borderland Pride within 30 days” as recompense for their disobedience.
The Post report notes the course being offered by the Ontario Human Rights Commission. The animated video begins with what McQuaker must feel is a tad Orwellian with a statement that the Human Rights Code “is not meant to punish.” After all, being retrained to be a better human can hardly be viewed as punishment.
Hoist that on your nonexistent flagpole.
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Here is the opinion: Ontario Human Rights Tribunal
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Ah, the old Crayon Swastika flag.
Straight conversion therapy will become mandatory in Canada if this perverted movement isn’t stopped.
Maybe they should have just have hoisted a flag with a pic of an anus.
Is flying anything other than the Canadian flag in the constitution? Then bleep them.
Good grief, for all their bluster, the LGBTQWERTY activists must be the weakest, most insecure people on earth! The gay people I know just go quietly on with their lives and their same sex marriages, bother nobody, and only bring up the issue occasionally. But THESE people must be SO INSECURE that they must force EVERYBODY ELSE to endorse their proclivities!
Next, they'll be running around pounding on doors, asking families to bring out their men, so that they may "know" them!
Maybe the people of Emo, Ontario, will finally have enough and simply just beat and kick the crap out of these people.
Eh?
I have to use that one!
They would LOVE to be able to do to us what the nazis did to certain groups.
But we are not Canada...speaking of which, is there a glut of illegals heading that way? It would seem like a good route to go for an illegal up north in the US.
We should drive them to the border :)
I hope Canada wakes up.
But we have Trump and a REAL chance.
America is NOT W Europe or Canada.
We are different.
We are more resilient.
We wake up just in time most of the time.
And I think we’ll be ok...with a lot of fighting ahead of us.
Because the town’s name was “Emo”, I waas sure this was a piece of satire. Canada is SO gone.
Hoist the Jolly Roger.
I’d tell them where they can stick that flag.
Someone should send the townspeople the story of Skidmore, Missouri and what happened to the town bully Ken Rex McElroy.
He’s an idiot if he shows up for class
We have reached peak pervert supremacist.
Barry44 has been all over this concern for a long time, I'm sure. Witness: his signature:
...and then what's clearly embedded in it.
From doodle to scrawl, then dozens of times a day, from Obie's perspective. Stroke of the pen--law of the land, kinda cool!:
Canukistan is a tyrannical nation.
Trump should limit their visas to America to almost nothing until they release their political prisoners and draconian laws.
And the one percent of Canada’s population continues to want to run the country and are succeeding.
How different is this than in North Korea where portraits of the “dear leaders” are mandated in every home and public place and failure to give due respect is punishable by being sent to a concentration camp. How much longer are the Canadians going to put up with this tyranny? Of course Canadians have been largely stripped of their firearms.
totally communist...
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