Other provinces are joining or are planning to join New Brunswick in changes to education policies that protect LGBTQ students in schools.
Sivalingam said some of the policies being rolled out are blatantly discriminatory, adding queer youth need strengthening and support of their fundamental rights.
But the trend of governments spear-heading policy changes like in New Brunswick, Saskatchewan and potentially Manitoba isn’t new. “I think what we’re seeing here a little bit is that politicians are responding to their base because they’re not hearing it from elsewhere. It didn’t become an issue until they made it an issue,” he said in an interview Wednesday.“We saw this in the United States,” he said. “This is dangerous and divisive wedge politics in Canada — sometimes it might work in an election — but most times … if we have an election this will not be a vote-getter for the Progressive Conservatives.
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