http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1767472
The redneck Conservatives are at it again.
I bet it’s the Calgary Stampede and all the bull that they like to shovel.
Fed Conservative removed after grant to gay pride week
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http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1767472
The redneck Conservatives are at it again.
I bet it’s the Calgary Stampede and all the bull that they like to shovel.
$400,000 for Gay Pride Week?
Explain to me, exactly, why my tax dollars should be spent this way........
I like Diane Ablonsky, but this is an outrageous waste of cash.............
Explain to me, exactly, why my tax dollars should be spent this way........
I like Diane Ablonsky, but this is an outrageous waste of cash.............
No matter how it's spun, if she gave them money, she should be bounced.
That spectale is a travesty to common decency and a blight on the gay community.
Perhaps it's the company I keep, but of all the gay people I know, not one of them support the gay pride parade, no any of its peripheral festivities.
And I quote...
That spectale is a travesty to common decency and a blight on the gay community.
Perhaps it's the company I keep, but of all the gay people I know, not one of them support the gay pride parade, no any of its peripheral festivities.
And I quote...
SCB's cousin.
I object to a lot of things done with my tax money. This isn't big enough to care about.
I'd rather have my tax dollar go elsewhere, too, but even 400 G's is a drop in the bucket to that white elephant we call a firearms registry, or the amount spent on GG's and LG's, or the amount spent on a more-or-less useless senators, or the amount spent on cops, courts, etc. to deal with pot.
No. You are not considered a special interest minority group. Why, doesn't the Santa Clause Parade suit your needs? How about Canada day, Easter Parade, or may be Remembrance Day?:roll:
I just read a CTV article from 2007, and it puts the economic impact of the Pride events in at approximately $80 million. On a budget of about $1 million. So, that $400,000 might not be such a bad investment if it helps to either maintain the numbers during a weakened economy, or even to grow the event.
Yup. Not too shabby at all.
Also, there's probably a joke about a Hummer in there somewhere :laughing9:
Also, there's probably a joke about a Hummer in there somewhere :laughing9:
I agree totally, Colby. Curious to know what other cities have this parade and how much governments pay for them, including Edmonton. Not happy at all.
Diane Ablonczy a well-respected Conservative MP who is a lawyer and always defended Harper to be humiliated is another sign that the Conservative's armour is cracking.
She held the file even though there was another person appointed to the file she held it until it was officially taken away from her.
She never had to get permission but because she gave money to the Gay Pride week she was publicly chastised.
On the news the other day they showed all the federal leaders serving food to the Stampede people and then they all gave speeches in their various tents and what has the Conservatives worried is that for once the liberal tents were full of Albertans that wanted to hear what Michael was saying.
We have to remember that the Conservatives lost a riding in Edmonton so the voters are seeing that a Conservative government cannot deliver what they promised.
I feel a Liberal majority in the next federal election.
She held the file even though there was another person appointed to the file she held it until it was officially taken away from her.
She never had to get permission but because she gave money to the Gay Pride week she was publicly chastised.
On the news the other day they showed all the federal leaders serving food to the Stampede people and then they all gave speeches in their various tents and what has the Conservatives worried is that for once the liberal tents were full of Albertans that wanted to hear what Michael was saying.
We have to remember that the Conservatives lost a riding in Edmonton so the voters are seeing that a Conservative government cannot deliver what they promised.
I feel a Liberal majority in the next federal election.
I thought you predicted the Conservatives would bring in a new law to make abortion illegal, and they'd get a majority - even you would vote Conservative.