Premier Rachel Notley and Education Minister David Eggen (center) support gay straight alliances in Alberta schools.
EDMONTON, November 8, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Alberta’s United Conservative Party will oppose the NDP’s radical gay-straight alliance bill, which is unprecedented in Canada in the sweeping power it gives government, says newly elected UCP leader Jason Kenney.
Bill 24, or An Act to Support Gay Straight Alliances, forbids schools telling parents that their child has joined a GSA without the child’s explicit consent, regardless of the student’s age.
The bill would “make it illegal to engage parents about certain school activities for children beginning in kindergarten, regardless of their individual circumstances,” Kenney noted at a press conference Tuesday before Alberta’s legislature began second reading debate on the bill.
Bill 24 also “concentrates enormous new powers in the hands of the Minister, undermining local decision making by principals, school boards, and independent schools,” he said.
“Not even Ontario’s Liberal government, which has taken a very aggressive approach to these issues, has proposed anything like the powers in Bill 24.”
In response, Premier Rachel Notley suggested Kenney, a known social conservative who was elected UCP leader fewer than two weeks ago, was
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