UCP member apologizes for ‘unintentionally’ comparing pride flag to swastikas

He says he meant to stress the need to defend fundamental rights such as free speech, and that slogans touting diversity and inclusion have been abused in ways that undermine those freedoms.

Carpay, a lawyer and president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, is behind a legal challenge to Alberta’s law on gay-straight alliances.

The law bans schools from telling parents if their children join the peer groups meant to make LGBTQ kids feel welcome and to prevent bullying.

A video of Carpay’s remarks, posted on YouTube by Rebel Media, shows him discussing the court case and suggesting the law on gay-straight alliances is “a type of law that they would have in Nazi Germany of Communist Russia.”

He later says: “How do we defeat today’s totalitarianism? Again, you’ve got to think about the common characteristics. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a hammer and sickle for communism, or whether it’s the swastika for Nazi Germany or whether it’s a rainbow flag, the underlying thing is a hostility towards individual freedoms.”

Rebel Media has come under fire for its coverage in the past, with several conservative politicians — including UCP Leader Jason Kenney — denouncing its editorial direction in the wake of last year’s protests in Charlottesville, Va.

At the time, Kenney said on social media that he had “publicly condemned their alt-right editorial direction of recent months.”

Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press

by The Canadian Press

UCP member apologizes for ‘unintentionally’ comparing pride flag to swastikas

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