“I don’t hate anybody. We just don’t have a flagpole at our town hall.”
The mayor of Emo, Ontario is fighting back after a tribunal of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) fined his township $10,000 and himself $5,000 for not flying a “Pride” flag during Pride month in June 2020.
The tribunal ruled against the Mayor Harold McQuaker and Emo in November and decreed that both must pay the LBGTQ group “Borderland Pride” in order to compensate the group after it asked the town council to honor Pride month by raising the rainbow flag. In addition to the fine, the mayor is expected to undergo a Human Rights 101 indoctrination course and to arrange for a drag queen story hour at his local library. McQuaker is telling the tribunal to forget those measures as well.
“I utterly refuse to pay the $5,000 because that’s…
