Canada bans summer job grants to pro-life employers

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After the Canadian government’s decision to force employers to support abortion and transgender “rights” in order to get summer job grants, LifeSiteNews has launched a petition and postcard campaign...

The Liberal government will announce December 19 that employers must now sign an “attestation” that they agree with abortion and transgender "rights" before they can take advantage of the Canada Summer Jobs Program.

In order to receive federal Canada job grants, employers must attest that:

• both the job and the organization’s core mandate respect individual human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as other rights. These include reproductive rights and the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of sex, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, colour, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression. 

The change is intended “to prevent Government of Canada funding from flowing to organizations whose mandates or projects may not respect individual human rights, the values underlying the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and associated case law,” according to a government briefing package sent to MPs.

It will also “help prevent youth (as young as 15 years of age) from being exposed to employment within organizations that may promote positions that are contrary to the values enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and associated case law,” and “ensure that youth job opportunities funded by the Government of Canada take place in an environment that respects the rights of all Canadians.”

Conservative MP Brad Trost was first to publicly raise the alarm in a Twitter and Facebook video in which he denounces the Liberals for discrimination.

“In practical terms, this means you have to be with the Liberal Party position on abortion, gay marriage, transgendered rights, all sorts of legislation in the House of Commons, otherwise you will be an ineligible employer for this program,” Trost said.