Human Rights Tribunal fines small Ontario town for refusing to fly LGBT ‘Pride Flag’ in 2020
Emo Township has been fined $15,000 for refusing the demands of LGBT activists in 2020. ‘I find that $15,000 is an appropriate level of compensation for Borderland Pride’s injury to dignity, feelings and self-respect,’ Karen Dawson wrote in her decision.
This seems like a very bad precedence for Ontario — does this now mean that Palestinian protestors have the right for HAMAS flags to be flown OR Jewish protestors can demand the Israeli flag OR Transgenders can demand their flag OR the KKK can demand theirs. The only flags that should be flown nationally are city, province and country flags — everything else should be treated the same & preferrably not at all. This would avoid similar type of judicial decision making and if the groups want to fly their own flag they can use their own personal flagpoles.