Trudeau's legacy of over a $ billion spent on LGBT stuff

Now that Justin Trudeau is finally gone, it's time to tally up how many tax dollars he spent on his LBGT agenda. The answer is - $1,106,822,973.

Just a few examples below of these 1,228 different funding grants.

• Stratford Pride Community Centre - $166,505 - 2025 - Through this 15-month project, Stratford Pride Community Centre will address the needs and barriers to equality for 2SLGBTQI+ communities. This will be accomplished through dialogue and education outreach, to address growing division between generational values, while fostering safety, acceptance, and joy for members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community living in Stratford and Perth County. This will be achieved by 1) launching a multi-platform awareness campaign to foster empathy and to lay the foundation for community dialogue; 2) facilitating community engagements among diverse participants to identify community needs, while promoting dialogue and inclusion; 3) developing, piloting and conducting educational workshops and resources, aimed at promoting community diversity; and 4) disseminating tools, resources and results in the community and assessing project results.
• The Enchanté Network - $900,000 - 2024 - This 19-month project will establish the foundational pillars of Canada’s first national Black 2SLGBTQI+ organization through engagement, communication, and organizational development - all with a focus on systemic impact and organizational sustainability. The Enchanté Network will undertake key organizational development activities, co-develop a strategic plan and host two annual national black 2SLGBTQI+ summits.
• Chamber of  Commerce Canadian Gay & Lesbian - $489,409 - 2024 - CGLCC's 2SLGBTQI+ Market Readiness for Atlantic Canada's tourism industry
• Alinea International Ltd - $4,948,466 - 2022 - The SAIL-SRHR project aims to strengthen the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and human rights for adolescent girls and members of vulnerable and stigmatized groups in targeted communities. Project activities include: (1) improving the delivery of rights-based sexual and reproductive health services, promoting gender equality, positive masculinity, and sexual and reproductive rights through improved, peer-led school education; (2) empowering adolescent girls and vulnerable and stigmatized populations to seek, advocate for, and access their sexual and reproductive rights and human rights; (3) target vulnerable and stigmatized populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people and sex workers, health service providers, educators, parents, community leaders, and policymakers; and (4) reach through inclusive health services, peer-led sexual and reproductive health education, improved school-based health curriculum and instruction, social media campaigns, and research and advocacy skills.
• CANADIAN GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | CANADIAN GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - $486,965 - 2021 - This project proposal aims to support local & regional economic development, while positioning tourism destinations & businesses as welcoming & inclusive places to visit. This project aims to support local/regional tourism destinations & businesses successfully enter & grow the LGBTQ2+ travel market. The primary objectives are to increase the number, & develop a sustainable network, of tourism businesses & communities that have market ready products & services that meet the demands and expectations of the LGBTQ2+ traveler. Further, the project aims to Increase Southern Ontario’s profile as a premier tourism destination for the LGBTQ2+ travel market and to increase the number of LGBTQ2+ visitors & subsequent tourism receipts. Finally, the project aims to contribute to the increase of tourism jobs for unemployed/underemployed people within the sector. Projected outcomes of this project include: 300 people trained & certified in LGBTQ2+ Inclusion; 20 market information workshops delivered; 6 destination audits completed; and, 250 businesses accredited in inclusivity tourism as outlined above. The main activities of the project include: outreach & industry consultation to engage local/regional stakeholders; the delivery of destination audits & assessments to identify products & services offered by the destination and identify what is needed to further develop & grow the market; conduct LGBTQ2+ travel market seminars and diversity & inclusion workshops to increase education & capacity building of the tourism industry. Also, an activity of this project is to review & recognize (accreditation) of those businesses & destinations that have clearly demonstrated inclusive policies & practices & meet set industry standards as trained through this project. The activities in this project are expected to drive greater LGBTQ2 travelers to the region, resulting in greater support for LGBTQ2+ owned & allied businesses.
• Travel Gay Canada - $100,000 - 2017 - Fund activities that support growth in Canada's tourism sector by increasing LGBTQ2 international visitation to Canada.
• Drayton Theatres Inc. - $1,000,000 - 2022 - Retrofit of an industrial warehouse in Waterloo, ON to be converted into a Youth Academy that provides new cultural infrastructure for community building and arts-based learning for youth, particularly those identifying as BIPOC), LGBTQ2+, new Canadians, and Persons with Disabilities. 
• EGALE CANADA HUMAN RIGHTS TRUST | FONDS ÉGALE CANADA POUR LES DROITS DE LA PERSONNE - $149,990 - 2019 - The organization will deliver the first national gender diversity and inclusion training program for 24 legal clinics in eighteen cities across all provinces and territories. The goal of the training is to increase awareness and understanding among legal and paralegal professionals about LGBTQI2S issues as they intersect with the justice system. The project will culminate in a bilingual handbook on gender diversity and inclusion geared to legal and paralegal professionals.
• Pride Toronto - $1,000,000 - 2019 - The purpose of this contribution is to provide funding to support a project that will look at the ways in which the LGBTQ2+ community seeks to address community safety issues. In particular, they will aim to better understand the patterns of offending in the LGBTQ2+ community, address the institutional cultures within the criminal justice system and to improve the relationship between the criminal justice system and the LGBQT2+ community and seek ways to implement more effective educational and prevention tools in this community.

So - will Mark Carney continue the trend of dishing out money for all things LGBT? I guess we will just have to wait and see.

The scandal of raking in tax dollars (part 3)

A lot of public funding goes to progressive groups. Perhaps that is why there are so many of these organizations in the first place--they know they can, and do, receive billions in government grants.

We've already seen the $1,550,884,070 given to Canada Summer Jobs recipients and “reproductive choice” advocates. Today I look at the LGBT / pride parade lobby, the other side of this favoured coin.

Keep in mind that pro-life groups get nothing from these political handouts. Pro-life groups are self funded and totally dependent on their donors for their very existence. In fact, I wonder how many of these progressive groups would even exist if it weren't for all this government funding they receive?

You might also remember that in 2014 Ottawa's Capital Pride went bankrupt, leaving many suppliers very unhappy, and very unpaid. Fast forward to 2017 and we learn that Capital Pride is now getting money from grants each year from the federal government. And they aren't the only pride parades/festivals to receive funding. I counted 22 of them. Below are the top four recipients, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

CAPITAL PRIDE / FIERTÉ DANS LA CAPITALE (LA) Canada $35,300 2019-04-02

CAPITAL PRIDE / FIERTÉ DANS LA CAPITALE (LA) Canada $75,000 2019-02-08

CAPITAL PRIDE / FIERTÉ DANS LA CAPITALE (LA) Canada $7,594 2018-05-14

CAPITAL PRIDE / FIERTÉ DANS LA CAPITALE (LA) Canada $22,000 2018-02-26

CAPITAL PRIDE / FIERTÉ DANS LA CAPITALE (LA) Canada $17,300 2017-02-22

Total for Capital Pride $157,194

Pride Toronto Canada $1,000,000 2019-01-28

Pride Toronto Canada $92,200 2019-04-01

Pride Toronto Canada $41,766 2018-04-30

PRIDE TORONTO Canada $250,000 2018-11-07

PRIDE TORONTO Canada $92,200 2017-11-03

PRIDE TORONTO Canada $125,700 2016-11-16

Total for Toronto Pride $1,601,866

FIERTÉ MONTRÉAL Canada $5,000 2019-07-22

FIERTÉ MONTRÉAL Canada $160,000 2019-04-01

FIERTÉ MONTRÉAL Canada $80,700 2019-04-01

FIERTÉ MONTRÉAL Canada $11,700 2019-04-01

Fierté Montréal Canada $2,471 2018-05-01

FIERTÉ MONTRÉAL Canada $92,400 2018-04-01

FIERTÉ MONTRÉAL Canada $20,000 2017-08-14

Fierté Montréal Canada $100,000 2017-07-25

FIERTÉ MONTRÉAL Canada $93,300 2017-03-23

FIERTÉ MONTRÉAL Canada $250,000 2016-10-07

FIERTÉ MONTRÉAL Canada $91,500 2016-04-08

Fierté Montréal|Fierté Montréal Canada $1,000,000 2019-05-27

Fierté Montréal|Fierté Montréal Canada $300,000 2018-07-27

Total for Montreal Pride $2,207,071

VANCOUVER PRIDE SOCIETY Canada $80,700 2019-07-14

VANCOUVER PRIDE SOCIETY Canada $1,000,000 2019-05-30

Vancouver Pride Society Canada $8,822 2019-04-23

Vancouver Pride Society Canada $6,902 2018-04-23

Vancouver Pride Society Canada $72,600 2018-02-26

Vancouver Pride Society Canada $63,900 2017-02-22

Vancouver Pride Society Canada $79,100 2016-04-29

Total for Vancouver Pride $1,312,024

Notice the trend to increase funding every year for pride parades / festivals. If Justin Trudeau wins the 2019 election I expect to see these government handouts double.

This funding also includes (in addition to my previous SJP funding here) $307,457 for the Canada Summer Jobs.

Canadian pride festivals: $6,165,266

Canadian LGBT organizations (other than pride/parades festivals): $8,374,519

Canadian LGBT research grants: $13,275,313

Foreign grants going to foreign LGBT organizations and research: $4,524,123

Total LGBT funding $32,339,221

Add this to my previous total of $32,339,221 + $1,550,884,070 for a whopping grand total of $158,322,3291 or almost $1.6 billion to these Justin Trudeau favoured entities.

Note 1: I haven't taken into account the municipal and provincial funding for these groups. Those grant disclosures will be up next.

Note 2: No federal funds were given to Jesus festivals or to Pro-life festivals or Pro-life marches.

How science will blow the abortion debate wide open

Good article in Saturday's National Post.

Michelle Hauser: Pro-life debates, with a sci-fi twist

"When it comes to debating the rights of the unborn, history may show our current quiet phase to have been the calm before the storm: the transition period when science, not ideology, became the driving force for a bill of rights for the fetus. 

One factor driving the change: advancements in neonatal medicine are pushing the envelope of fetal viability well beyond what anyone ever imagined. 

In May 2015, Time magazine responded to a study by the New England Journal of Medicine on premature infants by asking the question that’s on many people’s minds: “How low can preemies go?” The landmark study pointed to fetal viability at 22 weeks, versus the currently accepted 24 weeks. According to Time, this raised new ethical dilemmas about “how much care is too much — and how much is suddenly not enough” and, by extension, “how an even slightly lower age of viability affects the fraught debate over abortion.” 

In particular, the study calls into question the controversial practice of late-term abortions, performed after the 20th week of gestation. According to partial data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information, in 2014 there were 605 abortions performed at 21-plus weeks. In the decade to come, as saving the lives of premature infants in that grey zone of viability becomes commonplace, it will make the dividing line between the wanted and the unwanted so much more intolerable, especially for the many Canadians who self-identify as “reluctantly pro-choice.” 

Neonatology isn’t the only stream of medicine that will eventually force the government’s hand in establishing the rights of the unborn — fetal medicine is making equally course-altering strides. After a $54.5-million gift to its Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, the University of Alberta recently joined other hospitals and universities worldwide who will, in the decades to come, establish a new normal in fetal care, including life-saving surgeries and diagnostics that can be performed in utero as early as 13 weeks. 

These scientific leaps won’t just expand our notion of duty of care for the fetus, they will blow it wide open. 

Will a woman’s autonomy still be the deciding factor on issues of life and death?..."

After being in Toronto this past weekend where everything was Pride Pride Pride Pride...I thought this comment below about the article from a Del James Cornell University, was particularly timely:

"It would great to see strong, rational voices in the general population advocating for rights of the unborn with the same vigor we have seen people advocating for LGBT rights. Human rights are rights for all humans and science continually demonstrates that a fetus is a human being unto itself."

Canada gets it but Justin Trudeau doesn't

Ah, Justin Trudeau. He's so predictable. At yesterday's pride parade in Toronto he said:

“I’ve seen so many people from every corner of the world, literally,” Mr. Trudeau said, adding that he’d spoken with people from Australia, South Africa and Jamaica earlier in the day. “[Canada] is a place that actually gets it, that stands up for human rights around the world and welcomes people in.” (emphasis added)

Trudeau believes in human rights. For lesbian people. For gay people. For bisexual people. For transgender people.

But Trudeau doesn't believe in those same Canadian human rights for pre-born human beings. They are excluded from Trudeau's human rights list.

I wonder how many LGBT people are aborted every year in Canada? They'll never get to be a candidate for the Liberal party. Because they don't have human rights when in the womb.

For more Justin Trudeau  and his unique belief system on excluding pro-life people from "his" party:

http://run-with-life.blogspot.ca/2014/06/justin-trudeau-ghost-of-daddy-past.html
http://run-with-life.blogspot.ca/2014/06/justin-trudeau-further-explains-liberal.html
http://run-with-life.blogspot.ca/2014/05/memo-to-justin-trudeau-personal-and.html
http://run-with-life.blogspot.ca/2014/05/can-justin-trudeau-really-be-catholic.html
http://run-with-life.blogspot.ca/2014/05/justin-trudeau-what-is-he-talking-about.html
http://run-with-life.blogspot.ca/2014/05/justin-trudeaus-liberal-charter-of.html
http://run-with-life.blogspot.ca/2014/05/educating-justin.html
http://run-with-life.blogspot.ca/2014/05/the-canonical-phrase-womans-right-to.html