— Alberta’s United Conservative Party delegates voted Sunday for balanced budgets and an end to the carbon tax, but there were fireworks after they also OK’d a controversial motion affecting gay children in schools. They passed the motion despite pleas from three UCP caucus members to scuttle it because it was fundamentally wrong and politically perilous. “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, forcing the moderator to intervene. But they say some parents would be hostile to their children joining, and that by notifying parents, children would not take the risk to sign up. That means making sure that children have safe spaces in schools.”Proponents of the motion, however, told delegates the LGBTQ issue is a red herring.

Source: National Post May 06, 2018 22:16 UTC