"The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ordered $5,000.00 out of [Mayor McQuaker's] pocket for declining an activist group's Pride Month proclamation request. The township of Emo was fined a further $10,000.00 by the tribunal in its November 2024 ruling — a fair bit of money for a township of only 1,200 people.This case from 2020 and 2024 is again in the news as the Canadian Constitution Foundation has been granted the right to intervene in a review / appeal of the OHR Tribunal decision of November 2024.
"The controversy began in 2020 when Borderland Pride asked Emo's council to declare June "Pride Month" and display the LGBTQ2 rainbow flag."*
Who are the Heroes? Those who stand in defense of their conscience, values, and rights without coercing others? or those who demand, with force of law, that others celebrate / affirm their life choices?
Canadian town fined $10k for refusing to celebrate Pride Month
(Sky News Australia | Dec 3, 2024 | Time 9:16 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdKF3b3LKv0&t=5s
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*Quoted from the October 28, 2025 newsletter of the Canadian Constitution Foundation (theCCF.ca, Calgary Alberta)
See also: https://theccf.ca/ccf-to-intervene-in-case-of-mayor-fined-5000-after-he-voted-against-proclaiming-pride-month/
https://www.nwonewswatch.com/local-news/freedom-of-speach-issue-raised-in-emo-pride-case-11041541
