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October Canada Gay groups across the […]
When
1977-10
Description
October Canada Gay groups across the country began to circulate a petition calling on federal and provincial governments to add sexual orientation to their human rights legislation. NGRC coordinated the petition, with a goal to collect 50,000 signatures by May 15, 1978. The plan was to present the petition to the House of Commons on June 1, 1978, the first anniversary of the passage in the House of the Canadian Human Rights Act. There was some resistance. MP Jake Epp (PC –Provencher), for example, wrote back to the NGRC that he was opposed to the campaign, and that "what is needed is not the protection of homosexuals but for Canadians who are not deviants." The NGRC responded by asking Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark to reprimand Epp.
