Commentary LGBTQ activists are enraged at Florida’s legislature for passing the “Parental Rights in Education” bill, which they mislabel the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The bill seeks to ban teachers from instructing students about sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. Few believe children of this age (five to eight years old)…

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says he welcomes a leadership review after learning some members within his party are requesting the caucus to trigger a vote on his leadership on Feb. 2. “I’m not going anywhere and I’m not turning back,” said O’Toole in a series of posts on Twitter on Jan. 31. “It’s time for…

News Analysis In the fast-tracked conversion therapy bill that was passed into law last week, there were two significant issues that did not receive parliamentary oversight either in the House of Commons or the Senate. One issue involves definitions in the bill, which proved contentious in the House of Commons in the first incarnation of…

The Liberal government’s bill to ban conversion therapy has passed in the House of Commons and will now go on to the Senate. A motion to accept Bill C-4 without amendment was presented by Conservative MP Rob Moore and was adopted unanimously by MPs on Dec. 1. During the previous Parliament, 62 Conservative MPs had…

The federal government has tabled a new, tougher version of its previous bill to ban the practice of conversion therapy in Canada. Bill C-4, tabled Nov. 29, expands on the previous iteration Bill C-6, which did not make it through the Senate and died with the dissolution of Parliament on Aug. 15 when the federal election was…

Bill C-6 defines conversion therapy in overly broad terms and would eliminate supports that would help young people who are questioning their gender identity to avoid the path of invasive medical intervention, says the founder of a group that advocates for the rights of children. Pamela Buffone of the Canadian Gender Report says the language…

The Liberal government’s proposed legislation on conversion therapy would criminalize private conversations between children and their parents, says Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, who is urging parliamentarians to change the definition of “conversion therapy” in the bill before it’s passed. “The definition of conversion therapy is poorly drafted—is out of step with definitions of conversion therapy…

A vast majority of Canadians agree that adults should have the right to seek the sexual counselling of their choice, according to a new poll. Conducted by Nanos for the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), the poll found that 78 percent of Canadians agree that consenting adults should be free to seek the sexual…

Commentary Parliament needs to find the courage to stand up for Canadians’ fundamental freedoms instead of allowing Bill C-6 to trample them. While the intent of the bill to criminalize harmful practices under the banner of “conversion therapy” is right and good, the effect of the legislation would go much further, devastating fundamental freedoms such…

Victoria’s Conversion Therapy Bill explicitly targets Christian sexual ethics and places “unjustifiable limits” on fundamental rights and freedoms, an Australian law firm has said. In a report (pdf) published by the Coalition Against Unsafe Sexual Education (CAUSE), the Human Rights Law Alliance, a conservative non-for-profit law firm, analysed 8 sections of Victoria’s Human Rights Charter…