United Conservative Party caucus, candidates meet in Lethbridge
LETHBRIDGE – UCP Leader Jason Kenney wasted no time taking on his NDP counterparts, as his party gathered in Lethbridge Friday, Sept. 14., for a two-day training, team building and community outreach event, in preparation for the 2019 provincial election.
Speaking to media outside of the Galt Museum, Kenney was asked what his thoughts were on the 61 mainly private schools in the province that have not yet set out a mandatory policy for creating, supporting and protecting Gay Straight Alliances or Queer Straight Alliances (GSA/QSA). All schools in the province were mandated to do so by June 2018, after “An Act to Create Gay/Straight Alliances,” formerly Bill 24, came into effect in Dec. 2017.
Provincial education minister David Eggen has threatened to pull public funding dollars from those schools that do not comply, by the end of 2018.
Kenney told reporters that rather than acting like an education “czar,” Eggen should act as a “servant leader.”