'It's alarming and frightening at the same time.' said Wilbur Turner, chair of Advocacy Canada, which support the queer community.
Shocking and alarming--those are the words being used to describe comments made at this weekend's anti-SOGI rally in downtown Kelowna. The comments target the queer community and some believe they could be classified as hate speech. Klaudia van Emmerik reports.The speaker in question is David Lindsay, well-known in the city for organizing many anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown protests, which eventually got dubbed as so-called “freedom rallies”.
Lindsay however, declined the request for an interview, saying he will leave the words as they were said for people to interpret as they wish. “The comments could be classified as hate speech under B.C.’s Human Rights Code as well as federally under the Criminal Code of Canada,” Lee said.
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