Kenney lays out education platform, says UCP backs gay-straight alliances
CALGARY – The leader of Alberta’s United Conservatives says if his party were to head the government, schools would operate under rules for gay-straight alliance clubs developed before the NDP came to power.
Jason Kenney says the UCP would resurrect the former Progressive Conservative government’s unproclaimed Education Act, which included a provision to support the clubs in schools.
The New Democrats amended the School Act to bring in further protections for LGBTQ students including barring school officials from telling parents if their kids join one of the clubs.
Kenney says he supports gay-straight alliances for young people to get peer support if they’re being bullied and adds he wants a less contentious relationship with religious schools.