Turnout to what was billed as the 'Million March for Children' in B.C. was sparse in comparison to previous years.
WATCH: A school resource promoting acceptance of gender and family diversity is generating controversy and splitting the opinions of parents and politicians in B.C. and Alberta. The program at the centre of it all is called SOGI 123, or Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
Just a handful of people turned out in Coquitlam and Kelowna, while protests failed to materialize at all in Victoria or Vancouver, though counter-protesters turned up.“If you wish to learn about these ideologies or concepts, people should have the right to do so,” protester Graeme Flannigan said in Kelowna.“But when the children’s mind is still forming at such a young age we believe they cannot comprehend what is being instructed to them.
In 2023, demonstrators and counter-protest packed the Vancouver Art Gallery protest where tensions flared, while in Victoria the crowds grew so large police asked people to leave the legislature grounds amid escalating tensions. In Kelowna, LGBTQ2 rights advocate and president of Advocacy Canada Wilbur Turner said the situation in B.C. reflected low turnouts across Canada.Mohamed Al-Fayed, whose son died with Princess Diana, accused of multiple rapes
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