• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      I will put forth that even if what he is doing is fake, as you say, for publicity points it is still a good thing. He is publically showing that he supports pride, and those witnessing the Canadian Premiere taking a stance on social issues will have a harder time squashing those people that need that support.

      You have the opposite in the USA as they actively dismantle their social progress.

      • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca
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        22 hours ago

        The U.S. government and Trump are not good baselines for comparisons. Carney made no efforts to improve anyone’s quality of life, including LGBTQIA2S+ people.

        And under Carney’s latest bill C-12 that was just passed into law, immigrants who want to claim asylum for fearing for their lives in their home country after living in Canada over a year, won’t be eligible to stay anymore. That means if someone who identifies as LGBTQIA+, who knows they could face potential violence and death in their country simply for their sexual orientation or being trans, can’t claim asylum anymore.

        And I won’t even go into the whole cost of living and housing and all that, nor how there’s no intervention from the federal government into Alberta’s blatant anti-trans laws.

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        2 days ago

        I believe he also has a transgender child. Honestly, though, most leaders of our parties have participated in pride parades over the years, the Conservatives are the only ones who don’t.

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          22 hours ago

          That doesn’t mean anything. There are women and LGBTQIA+ people out there that have worked against their interests in politics.

          Some people love money more than anything else.