TORONTO, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A petition submitted to Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow demands an end to taxpayer funding of “pride” events.
Earlier this month, Gregory Tomchyshyn, Canadian Campaigns Director for Citizen Go, dropped off a petition to Chow calling for her government to end its lavish spending of taxpayer dollars on LGBT events, including the “Toronto Pride” parade.
“Mayor Olivia Chow and Toronto City Council just handed $350,000 in taxpayer money to Pride Toronto, despite the event’s history of public nudity and indecent displays in full view of families and children,” the petition read.
“Even as severe crises, crime, homelessness, drug addiction, and food insecurity, intensify across the city, all while our tax dollars are diverted to fund sexually explicit parades and politically charged performances on our streets,” it continued.
The petition has been signed by thousands of concerns citizens, with 9,937 signatures currently. Chow’s financial support for LGBT groups, using taxpayer dollars, ramped up this year after many corporations pulled their funding from “Toronto Pride,” the company which runs the annual “pride” parade.
According to CBC News, “Pride Toronto” will see its municipal funding hiked by 33 percent to a total of $2.5 million to 15 LGBT festivals.
Chow also condemned corporations that pulled funding from the group and suggested not shopping at Home Depot because the corporation is no longer funding “Pride Toronto.”
Chow’s commitment to further the LGBT agenda comes after a recent poll revealed that less than half of Toronto residents approve of Chow’s performance.
LifeSiteNews has covered the event’s public nudity, public displays of sexual exhibitionism, and crude floats and activities for years, including articles here, here, here, and here.
At Toronto’s “pride” parade, children are regularly exposed to simulated sex acts, adults wearing obscene apparel, and adult nudity. At a recent event, a naked middle-aged man hopped past children in a Bugs Bunny mask. These facts are either ignored or even defended by Canada’s mainstream media.
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, corporations including Home Depot, Google, Adidas, and Nissan Canada have dropped their sponsorship of “Toronto Pride.”
The company’s executive director Kojo Sherwin Modeste has since revealed that the sponsorship loss has caused a “shortfall” within the organization.
Previously, both Adidas and Nissan Canada were considered “gold-level” sponsors, a designation given for those who donate at least $150,000 in cash or in-kind contributions.
