LGBT News Justin Trudeau raises Pride flag on Parliament Hill for 1st time

Hawk · Jun 1, 2016

Trudeau will be 1st prime minister to march in Toronto's Pride parade

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised a Pride flag on Parliament Hill today for the first time in the country's history, in recognition of the people who have "fought a long time" to secure equal rights for LGBT Canadians.

The multi-colour rainbow flag — widely recognized as a symbol of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans community — will be flown on a temporary flag pole in front of Centre Block to mark the beginning of Pride Month, a time to celebrate sexual and gender diversity.

Many members of the Liberal caucus were in attendance at the event, including openly gay MPs Randy Boissonnault, Seamus O'Regan, Rob Oliphant and Treasury Board President Scott Brison.

"This is a great day for Canada and it's part of a long series of milestones this country has hit over the years. It hasn't been easy, it hasn't been automatic, a lot of people fought for a long time for this day to happen," Trudeau said.

"Canada is united in its defence of rights and it's standing up for LGBTQ rights," he said, noting it was not only Liberal MPs in attendance, but politicians from all the parliamentary parties. "And quite frankly … we still have more work to do," Trudeau said, adding that his government is pushing a transgender rights bill to extend protections to trans Canadians.

The flag gesture comes after the party announced that Trudeau would march in Toronto's Pride parade, the first sitting prime minister to take part in the festivities. "It's not going to be my first time," Trudeau said to laughs from the crowd.

Trudeau has been something of a regular at Pride in years past: he launched his election last August at Vancouver's parade, and marched alongside NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and the Bloc Québécois's then leader Gilles Duceppe later that month at Montreal's celebration.
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Kira · Jun 1, 2016

Fuck yeah, Canada! Stay awesome.

GodlyArmadillo · Jun 1, 2016

I wish we could make him Prime Minister of the world... *swoons*

Butterfly2016 · Jun 1, 2016

*hears the angels singing* HALLELUJAH!!!! ^_^

David21201 · Jun 1, 2016

I love this man

Shadstack · Jun 1, 2016

This is pretty cool, but I still don't like him.

SillyGoose · Jun 2, 2016

I don't know nothing about him but he seems cool and runs a badass country

Well he is liberal so he is kinda left winged so hell yes

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