Ok, compared to the rest of the world's news - HK, POTUS, pretty much any other country's news, Canada struggles to out-do. Probably a good thing and why it's so nice to live here. :)
Anyway, here is some excitement.
Heather Leung was the Conservative candidate (closest thing Canada has to a Republican party) for a riding in BC. She said some negative comments towards homosexuals and was subsequently booted from the Conversative party. However, it was so late in the federal election process, Elections Canada couldn't change the ballots. So even though all the ballots still say Heather Leung (Conservative) she is not part of the party. She says she is running independently now and the Conversatives have no candidate for this riding.
What's even funnier is that the Conservative party has banned her from using their label but she still is putting up Conservative signs to vote for her. I just had a Conversative party rep come to my house!
It now appears that her votes will still count towards the Conservative party's seat but it's highly doubtful she will get in anyway...
Comments
(Old Spike)
her comment was standard conservatism...concern about a future generation not catching the gay. Why'd they boot her out?
(Old Spike)
She made a blanket statement about homosexuals recruiting children which plays into the homosexuals are all pedophiles smear. What she was probably trying to say was that the grade school curriculum has had into it injected identitarian nonsense that indoctrinates children from a young age into far-left thanking. But typically she's really sucked at expressing that and so everyone was clutching their pearls. Canada is a joke and so are all of the government-run administrative programs and our elections and just about everything you could think of it's adorable.
All that really matters is what happens in the United States and for some reason I think it does make Canada a nicer place to live but I can't quite explain why.
(Old Spike)
The same thing would have happened here in NZ or in any "free" country. You can't mess with the gay any more, that's too much freedom of opinion for us to handle, apparently.
(Old Spike)
So many questions: Are you implying there is a group you can mess with? I'm assuming - besides white men with no group attachments. And how does one mess with a gay?
(Old Spike)
Seems you can mess with any group that's not some kind of protected class.
This lady gives an example of how you can't mess with the gay. Anything negative about the group, even implied, is off limits.
(Old Spike)
I was joking a bit but really, who wouldn't be in a protected class these days? There is definitly a movement to avoid bullying of any group these days. Some are more sensitive then others, for sure but in general I don't think there are many that are outside of the protected class these days. Maybe Ducks Unlimited? I hear they are all quackers. :)
I'm not exactly sure what messing with a groups means but suggesting a group is recruiting children and/or pedophiles is the wrong way to go about this. I get it, maybe some people and/or parents are concerned about exposing their children to homosexuality too early. But the comments are coming from a fear of homsexuality perspective not a seek to understand and accept perspective. And this view point is not Canadian.
As an aside, she didn't get in but did get 19.5% of the votes. (9,572)
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2019/results/