John Carpay, the United Conservative Party(UCP)) of Alberta member who is the lawyer challenging the NDP government's Bill 24 that would protect LGBTQ students from being outed to their parents by their schools, compared the Rainbow Flag to the Nazi Swastika and Communist Hammer and Sickle on the weekend. UCP leader Jason Kenney has compared Carpay to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who successfully sparked the 381 day Montgomery Alabama bus boycott by refusing to relinquish her seat on a segregated bus. Last month, Kenney was forced to disavow a UCP campaign worker with white supremacy and anti-semitic posts on social media. Previous to that a couple of UCP candidates posed for pictures with the hate group Soldiers of Odin.
On Saturday, Calgary lawyer John Carpay, with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, spoke at a conference organized by Rebel Media, a far-right media organization that has been criticized for sympathetic coverage of white supremacy. "How do we defeat today's totalitarianism? 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 to individual freedoms," Carpay said. ...
Other speakers at the event included Conservative Saskatoon MP Brad Trost and People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier.
Carpay is the lawyer behind a lawsuit challenging Alberta's Bill 24. In arguments before the court, he alleged that gay-straight alliances — peer-support groups that are meant to tackle bullying and provide supportive environments for LGBTQ students — are "ideological sexual clubs." ...
Carpay is a UCP member who spoke to resolutions at the party's policy convention this spring. In 2017, Kenney spoke at a Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms event, comparing Carpay's work to that of civil-rights activist Rosa Parks and asking people to donate to Carpay's organization.
Last month, Kenney disavowed a former campaign worker with ties to white supremacy and cancelled his UCP membership. ...
"To equate the Nazis with the movement for equality for LGBTQ people is abhorrent," said Duncan Kinney, the executive director of left-leaning advocacy group Progress Alberta. "Jason Kenney was just in the media last week talking about how he's going to create a database to keep extremists out of the UCP. This is an extremist in his ranks … Kenney has spoken warmly about the human rights work Carpay has done."
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