Thankfully, this story will likely be published on Black Friday and not the day before. We wouldn’t want to give you indigestion, though that may be beyond our ability to control. It is a tale of tyrannical flavors from the Great White North, where a town was fined for refusing to “celebrate” Pride Month, eh?
Free speech is not protected north of the 49th parallel, but compelled speech is—see Mark Stein, Jordan Peterson, etc., for some history on Canada’s descent into madness. Fine company for the town of Emo (Phillips?) Ontario, whom the Ontario Human Rights Council fined for harming a local LGBT group. How? The city was asked to fly a rainbow flag in honor of Pride month and decided not to bother, which, it was proven, caused some distress whose remedy was cash money.
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal is forcing the township of Emo and its mayor to compensate an LGBTQ activist group because elected officials refused to honor ‘Pride Month’ in 2020. Borderland Pride asked Emo to proclaim June 2020 as Pride Month and fly a rainbow Pride flag for a week but the mayor and council turned down the request, CBC News reported Friday.
The tribunal, whose rulings are legally binding, has determined that the township must pay Borderland Pride $10,000 and Emo Mayor Harold McQuaker has to provide the group with $5,000 from his personal finances.
I wonder how the Ontario Human Rights Council, seeing as its name has human rights in it and not gay or lesbian or bisexual human, would respond to charges that paying the fine caused distress or, better yet, that flying the flag did. While we can’t be certain, I’m quite comfortable suggesting that no such right exists, which means the council needs to change its name. It does not exist to protect human rights. It exists to preserve factious partisan interests at the expense of the rights of others.
