OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized for past state-sanctioned discrimination against LGBTQ people in Canada, but advocates argue his Liberal government could be doing more to stop it from happening now. “I think there’s a lot of work to do,” said Gary Lacasse, executive director of the Canadian AIDS Society. “The government must continue to work with its partners to improve policies and programs,” Trudeau said. As the one-year anniversary of that promise made on World AIDS Day approaches, advocates are getting tired of waiting for change. Another $15 million is being set aside for reconciliation and memorialization measures related to how LGBTQ federal employees were treated by the government for decades after homosexual acts were decriminalized in 1969.

Source: National Post November 29, 2017 18:11 UTC