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Decentralized Democracy

Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
May 31, 2023 09:00AM
  • May/31/23 10:40:00 a.m.

As mentioned earlier a number of times, we are proud to support Pride Toronto and work towards that celebration to support the 2SLGBTQ2IA+ community and support what they are attempting to do. This Pride festival is so very important.

We have had two meetings with the organizing committee at the Pride festival about a month ago. This is the first time we’ve really heard of a problem with financing. I would like to offer: When this event is over, we can settle down and sit down and talk about exactly what the concerns are. If insurance costs have come up and other things are happening, it would be nice if we could know about it, to show how we could show our support, versus a couple of days before the festival is about to start.

We take this seriously and we do show support through Reconnect Festival and Event Program Ontario cultural attraction funds, so it’s not as if we’ve been—

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