A small taste of LGBTQ funding (using your tax dollars)

$10,000,000 spent on just five LGBTQ organizations

This week the federal government announced new funding to Sudbury Queers United Around Diversity 

Sudbury Queers United Around Diversity funding from the past $302,742

Check out more LGBTQ funding recipients (not all of them, just five) explicitly posted on the government's website...all courtesy of your tax dollars.

1) Enchanté Network 

"Based in Ottawa, the Enchanté Network is Canada’s largest network of 2SLGBTQI+ organizations. They connect queer, trans, and Two-Spirit organizations with each other, with key capacity-building programming, and have a clear focus on collective public policy advocacy. Their network is made up of more than 200 2SLGBTQI+ organizations spanning every province and territory in the country."

Past funding $5,565,534

2) The Conseil québécois LGBT 

"The Conseil québécois LGBT has one thing in common with several LGBTQIA2+ organizations: it aims for systemic change to promote the inclusion of LGBTQIA2+ people in all spheres of society."

Past funding $1,301,717

3) Pride Season isn’t just a celebration
Everything you wanted to know about Pride season but were afraid to ask.

"...it’s a protest, a commemoration, and a call to action. Its roots lie in centuries of resistance to discrimination, violence, and erasure."

4) TransCare+ 

"Find out how TransCare+ is creating better care for all Canadians by becoming a hub of resources and a safe space for knowledge sharing."

Past funding $1,246,270

5) JusticeTrans 

"With their new research report on Two-Spirit, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming communities across the country, JusticeTrans is improving access to justice one data point at a time."

Past funding $1,542,966

That's $9,959,229 of your tax dollars given to only five of these organizations. A drop in the bucket of the total tax dollars going to LGBTQ organizations.

Canada hides tax dollars going to abortions in Uganda and Mozambique

Dear Information Commissioner,

I would like to submit my complaint to you regarding my ATIP to Global Affairs using Sections 20(1)(b) and 20(1)(c) of the federal Access to Information Act. See attached letter below. It would seem that this refusal is a work around to an open, transparent, accountable government. 

The tax dollars going to these third party organizations (Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) the Guttmacher Institute) are hidden from public scrutiny by the very fact that they are given to these organizations through the primary source organization (Oxfam), so that they can be hidden from public disclosure. 

IPPF is a global international company and the Guttmacher Institute is an American company--they aren't even Canadian companies and yet the Canadian dollars they receive is hidden from Canadian scrutiny. None of this is in the public interest.

In other words, if I am a company that does not want the public to know how much money I am getting from the government (AKA the public purse), I simply need to piggyback onto a primary company who receives funds and voila, the public is none the wiser of where their hard earned tax dollars are going and what they are being used for. 

This is definitely not open, not transparent, and not accountable to the public.

Can you please look into this?

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Patricia Maloney

My ATIP that I was refused access to:

“For this contract to Oxfam. How much of the grant went to (or will go to) Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights? Agreement Number: 7433891P008437001. Also what other organizations received monies from this contract, and how much money did each of them receive, or will receive? Also how much did International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) the Guttmacher Institute receive, or will receive?”

This is what the $19,638,400 grant was for:

"This project aims to improve access to high quality and gender-sensitive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for vulnerable adolescent girls and young women, between the ages of 15 and 24, in Mozambique and Uganda. Projects activities include: (1) recruiting and training peer educators and facilitators to raise awareness of topics related to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) amongst beneficiaries in the targeted communities; (2) holding training sessions for adolescent girls and women, and engaging with men, boys and community-leaders to raise awareness of SRHR and address discriminatory social norms; (3) delivering training to health care providers and providing local health care facilities with the appropriate equipment to deliver gender-responsive and youth-friendly SRH services, including access to contraceptives, safe abortion (where legal), post-abortion care, and secondary prevention services for gender-based violence; and (4) organizing advocacy campaigns alongside local women’s and girls’ rights organizations to push for better and more accessible SRH services, and the adoption of rights- and evidence-based policies in both Uganda and Mozambique. The project seeks to benefit nearly 500,000 people, 95% of whom are adolescent girls and young women between the ages of 15 and 24. Oxfam Canada is implementing this project in partnership with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the Guttmacher Institute, Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, and various Women’s Rights Organizations and Youth-led Organizations across Uganda and Mozambique."

Final thought. Why are Canadian taxpayers paying for abortions in Uganda and Mozambique? And why are Canadian tax dollars paying for "organizing advocacy campaigns" for abortion in Uganda and Mozambique?

Why do tax payers have to fund LGBTQ organizations?

From the Ottawa Citizen: LGBTQ+ charities and non-profits face increasing financial struggle. Fae Johnstone the executive director of Queer Momentum:

We need to support the organizations making equality real. 

Ah, no we don't. I don't want to give any more of my tax dollars to LGBTQ ideology. Canadians already give LGBTQ millions.

LGBTQ+ charities and non-profits deliver critical services and programs to the most vulnerable queer people. In Ottawa and across Canada, they're facing the perfect storm: economic precarity, government belt-tightening and corporations rescinding financial support, all made worse by a social and political climate increasingly hostile to LGBTQ+ acceptance. 

Cry me a river. 

If they want more money to fund their ideology let them fundraise for it. They've already received enough from the taxpayer. Kind Space received $1,077,389 in the past five years from government. Ten Oaks received $334,019. And Queer Momentum has received $395,325 for a total of almost $2 million dollars.

One of the commenters on this article made some excellent points as to why we do not need to fund these charities:

Sexual-identity-based charities rest on the flawed premise that people require different forms of support because of who they are, rather than because of what they are experiencing. Homelessness, depression, addiction, trauma, and poverty are sadly universal human conditions in our society. They do not become categorically different when experienced by LGBTQ+ individuals. Creating parallel, identity-filtered charities ultimately fragments service delivery, duplicates infrastructure, and diverts what is already scarce funding from more deserving outcome-driven programs that serve far more people.

In a time where Canadians have few and few dollars to give to charities, part thanks to our Liberal government running out of other peoples money, prioritizing identity over demonstrated need and measurable effectiveness is just plain inefficient and worse yet, exclusionary. It also risks turning charitable work into ideological signaling rather than practical problem-solving. Universal challenges are best addressed through inclusive needs-based institutions that treat people equally and allocate resources based on severity and impact. Compassion scales when it is universal and outcome-focused; it weakens when it is segmented by identity. Charity should reduce suffering, not organize it along political or social classifications.

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Dying with Dignity lobbies more government bureaucrats and politicians.

• Rachel Putnins, Director of Parliamentary Affairs, MP Will Greaves | House of Commons
• Thomas Law, Advisory, Policy and Regional Affairs | Justice Canada (JC)
• Julie Robinson, Legal Counsel for Constitutional Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations | Justice Canada (JC)
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More tax dollars to sexual and reproductive health and rights

Minister Valdez announces $15.5 million in federal funding to strengthen national women’s organizations across Canada

"This investment will help advance the work of organizations focused on justice, leadership, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender-based violence. The organizations that will receive funding will be selected in the coming weeks.

The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) will receive up to $1 million to collaborate with other national women’s organizations, as well as key stakeholders beyond the women’s sector. This initiative will support a more sustainable and coordinated sector that is better positioned to advance action on persistent gender inequalities over the long term."

What nonsense. Our government already gives way too much funding to women's organizations. Why are we giving more? How about we pay down our massive debt instead?