Run With Life: Trudeau's legacy of over a $ billion spent on LGBT...

Lord have Mercy! I am so glad he's gone.

Thanks Pat!

Run With Life: Trudeau's legacy of over a $ billion spent on LGBT...: 

Trudeau's legacy of over a $ billion spent on LGBT stuff

Now that Justin Trudeau is finally gone, it's time to tally up how many tax dollars he spent on his LBGT agenda. The answer is - $1,106,822,973.

Just a few examples below of these 1,228 different funding grants.

• Stratford Pride Community Centre - $166,505 - 2025 - Through this 15-month project, Stratford Pride Community Centre will address the needs and barriers to equality for 2SLGBTQI+ communities. This will be accomplished through dialogue and education outreach, to address growing division between generational values, while fostering safety, acceptance, and joy for members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community living in Stratford and Perth County. This will be achieved by 1) launching a multi-platform awareness campaign to foster empathy and to lay the foundation for community dialogue; 2) facilitating community engagements among diverse participants to identify community needs, while promoting dialogue and inclusion; 3) developing, piloting and conducting educational workshops and resources, aimed at promoting community diversity; and 4) disseminating tools, resources and results in the community and assessing project results.
• The Enchanté Network - $900,000 - 2024 - This 19-month project will establish the foundational pillars of Canada’s first national Black 2SLGBTQI+ organization through engagement, communication, and organizational development - all with a focus on systemic impact and organizational sustainability. The Enchanté Network will undertake key organizational development activities, co-develop a strategic plan and host two annual national black 2SLGBTQI+ summits.
• Chamber of  Commerce Canadian Gay & Lesbian - $489,409 - 2024 - CGLCC's 2SLGBTQI+ Market Readiness for Atlantic Canada's tourism industry
• Alinea International Ltd - $4,948,466 - 2022 - The SAIL-SRHR project aims to strengthen the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and human rights for adolescent girls and members of vulnerable and stigmatized groups in targeted communities. Project activities include: (1) improving the delivery of rights-based sexual and reproductive health services, promoting gender equality, positive masculinity, and sexual and reproductive rights through improved, peer-led school education; (2) empowering adolescent girls and vulnerable and stigmatized populations to seek, advocate for, and access their sexual and reproductive rights and human rights; (3) target vulnerable and stigmatized populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people and sex workers, health service providers, educators, parents, community leaders, and policymakers; and (4) reach through inclusive health services, peer-led sexual and reproductive health education, improved school-based health curriculum and instruction, social media campaigns, and research and advocacy skills.
• CANADIAN GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | CANADIAN GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - $486,965 - 2021 - This project proposal aims to support local & regional economic development, while positioning tourism destinations & businesses as welcoming & inclusive places to visit. This project aims to support local/regional tourism destinations & businesses successfully enter & grow the LGBTQ2+ travel market. The primary objectives are to increase the number, & develop a sustainable network, of tourism businesses & communities that have market ready products & services that meet the demands and expectations of the LGBTQ2+ traveler. Further, the project aims to Increase Southern Ontario’s profile as a premier tourism destination for the LGBTQ2+ travel market and to increase the number of LGBTQ2+ visitors & subsequent tourism receipts. Finally, the project aims to contribute to the increase of tourism jobs for unemployed/underemployed people within the sector. Projected outcomes of this project include: 300 people trained & certified in LGBTQ2+ Inclusion; 20 market information workshops delivered; 6 destination audits completed; and, 250 businesses accredited in inclusivity tourism as outlined above. The main activities of the project include: outreach & industry consultation to engage local/regional stakeholders; the delivery of destination audits & assessments to identify products & services offered by the destination and identify what is needed to further develop & grow the market; conduct LGBTQ2+ travel market seminars and diversity & inclusion workshops to increase education & capacity building of the tourism industry. Also, an activity of this project is to review & recognize (accreditation) of those businesses & destinations that have clearly demonstrated inclusive policies & practices & meet set industry standards as trained through this project. The activities in this project are expected to drive greater LGBTQ2 travelers to the region, resulting in greater support for LGBTQ2+ owned & allied businesses.
• Travel Gay Canada - $100,000 - 2017 - Fund activities that support growth in Canada's tourism sector by increasing LGBTQ2 international visitation to Canada.
• Drayton Theatres Inc. - $1,000,000 - 2022 - Retrofit of an industrial warehouse in Waterloo, ON to be converted into a Youth Academy that provides new cultural infrastructure for community building and arts-based learning for youth, particularly those identifying as BIPOC), LGBTQ2+, new Canadians, and Persons with Disabilities. 
• EGALE CANADA HUMAN RIGHTS TRUST | FONDS ÉGALE CANADA POUR LES DROITS DE LA PERSONNE - $149,990 - 2019 - The organization will deliver the first national gender diversity and inclusion training program for 24 legal clinics in eighteen cities across all provinces and territories. The goal of the training is to increase awareness and understanding among legal and paralegal professionals about LGBTQI2S issues as they intersect with the justice system. The project will culminate in a bilingual handbook on gender diversity and inclusion geared to legal and paralegal professionals.
• Pride Toronto - $1,000,000 - 2019 - The purpose of this contribution is to provide funding to support a project that will look at the ways in which the LGBTQ2+ community seeks to address community safety issues. In particular, they will aim to better understand the patterns of offending in the LGBTQ2+ community, address the institutional cultures within the criminal justice system and to improve the relationship between the criminal justice system and the LGBQT2+ community and seek ways to implement more effective educational and prevention tools in this community.

So - will Mark Carney continue the trend of dishing out money for all things LGBT? I guess we will just have to wait and see.