‘One Million March for Children’ protesters were met with counter-protest
Hundreds of people gathered in the centre of Greater Sudbury Sept. 20, some as part of the One Million March for Children, a nationwide protest, and the others to drown what they say is little more than hate speech.
While a similar protest at the Rainbow District School Board office in June attracted around 40 anti-2SLGBTQ+ protesters, and some 200 counter-protesters, this week’s event saw approximately 600 people, fairly evenly split on both sides of the issue. There were also close to 50 children present, as part of the march’s protest action was a school walkout, with parents who supported the march asked to pull their children from school.
The Million March protesters demand the removal of gender information from the Ontario curriculum, to be replaced with trades training and teaching “kids how to do their taxes. " One of the main speakers at the event suggested the group look up “Agenda 2030,” a reference to the United Nations’s 17 sustainable development goals.
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