Delegates voted 57 per cent to have parents told when their child is involved in any subject of a religious or sexual nature, including after-school social clubs such as gay-straight alliances. RED DEER, Alta.—Alberta’s United Conservative rank and file slammed head-on into their boss at their founding policy conference Sunday over a controversial policy regarding gay schoolchildren. “This is about outing gay kids,” UCP caucus whip Ric McIver said at the speaker’s microphone as some delegates hooted and shouted at him. Kenney, however, reiterated he would like to have parents notified if joining a GSA could put a child at harm. They have called it Kenney’s backdoor method of killing GSAs by introducing doubt about when parents would be told.

Source: thestar May 06, 2018 19:04 UTC