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.
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.”
We are not defined by our erotic impulses. There is certainly no reason to take pride in them.
Canada is lost. I can only wonder if those setting and enforcing these nutty policies are vaccine injured an thus mentally affected. Not far fetched as the childhood schedule exploded in 1988 and is easily correlated with the rise of mental health and chronic disease. The generation that has moved into positions of power often lacks rationality,
Another example of what happens when you lower the standards bar to the least effective group within a society.
The victim of a homosexual pedophile can find the rainbow flag offensive, just like Holocaust surivivors can find a swastika offensive.
Apples and oranges. You need the same training as mcquaker et al.
A pride flag is a symbol of acceptance; The Nazi swastika represents hate at its most egregious (and right now Israel is catching up, poisoning the Star of David). The pride flag does not represent rapists of any ilk, although it is worth mentioning that the overwhelming majority of rapists are men.
The left and especially the transactivists are intolerant and demanding. And the and their allies are the “be kinder.” I can’t stand them.
“Better human being”? Really?
My sister in law is a Canadian.
No amount of ridicule heaped upon this ‘tribunal’ is enough —this reads like a script from Saturday Night Live.
Mao’s Cultural Revolution 2.0
Meanwhile in Florida, Tyrant Trudeau is licking Trump’s boots.
The REAL fascists are in the rainbow mafia.
* it’s an attempt to de-villainize lgbt people. Whatever the choices are lgbt has been de-criminalized and to the public you are not to harm them nor are they to harm themselves. As a matter of fact no one should harm anyone.
It’s a bit overboard. It’s a reproductive disability whether physical or mental, innate or learned. It’s still immoral as perverse when reproduction is the meaning of all life forms as dictated by nature.
If you’ve given your genetics to the next generation you’re pretty much done.
How bout that…
Bye bye
Compelled education? O’Brian of the Inner Party, “1984,” called it “Room 101.” You’ll love gay pride after a short visit.
Gay pride is an idea so wonderful it has to be enforced at the point of a gun.
Excellent point, Dirty Dog. Sort of like communism and fascism being so great that people who speak out against it have to be imprisoned and opponents censored.
Communism and Fascism…………always just one bullet away from Utopia.
It makes me uncomfortable to know there is a real organization dedicated to the persecution of free speech. I know; I know. It’s Canada, and they don’t have a real Constitution. Still, it’s a shame.
Having “pride” in something that you didn’t personally accomplish is a falsehood. There is no such thing as “pride” in having eight fingers. Or is it that gays are trying to tell us it’s a choice now?
exactly!
first there was no choice, so accept or “you’re a bigot and phobe.”
now theres is pure choice on how you’d like identify as or “you’re a bigot and phobe.”
this article is: celebrate it or “you’re a bigot and phobe.”
next?
* 😂 compulsory education in how to be a better human being and with fines. Maybe there’s 365 different flags to be flown.
It’s the collective consciousness of gay pride. Do any other groups have flags flown? 🤔
Kash Patel for FBI
Let’s hear you racist lefties hoooooooowl
Bwahahahahahahahahah
It’s the old story. He couldn’t get it up.