Alberta has vaulted to the forefront of Canada’s debates on sexuality and gender expression, Premier Jim Prentice said on Tuesday evening after MLAs quickly passed legislation that ended a debate on gay support clubs that roiled the province.
Only minutes after Alberta’s legislature convened for the first time in 2015, Mr. Prentice’s Education Minister announced that the Tory government was reversing its position on gay-straight alliances and would make the clubs mandatory in every school where a student requested one.
Parents in Alberta will also no longer be able to remove their children from classes where sexual orientation is being discussed. A separate amendment will add gender expression and identity to the grounds for which Albertans will be protected from discrimination.
The education Minister of the conservative government is an ex-pastor and originally the conservatives wanted to give schools the option to deny GSAs, in which case students would have had to go to court. People in the province rebelled and now GSAs are mandatory even for catholic and private schools if at least one student ask for them.
OMG Yes Canada is so progressive I heard once that Alberta is like their Texas and look at this, not even some of the most liberal US states would do this. Literally when will the US?
OMG Yes Canada is so progressive I heard once that Alberta is like their Texas and look at this, not even some of the most liberal US states would do this. Literally when will the US?
I mean, "parents cannot pull their students off from sexual education classes". When will the others force obtuse parents to save their children from oppression?
OMG Yes Canada is so progressive I heard once that Alberta is like their Texas and look at this, not even some of the most liberal US states would do this. Literally when will the US?
I legit came in here to say our Texas of Canada is being progressive for once
Good for them!
As soon as I saw Alberta in the title, I thought it would be something bad considering its definitely Canadas most conservative province, but what a nice surprise
As soon as I saw Alberta in the title, I thought it would be something bad considering its definitely Canadas most conservative province, but what a nice surprise
slay.