> dr. saewyc testified that one of the ways that negative speech contributes to harms is through tacitly encouraging others to imitate that discriminatory speech, read the decision, which cited saewycs claim that u.s. president donald trump inspired hate and violence against the lgbtq community. > the human rights tribunal ultimately ordered the township to pay $10,000 to borderland pride, and for mcquaker to personally pay them another $5,000. > this was lower than what borderland pride had been seeking; they wanted $15,000 from the township and $10,000 each from the three councillors who voted no. fucking hell! vote wrong, get fined (is what they want) > but mcquaker and emos chief administrative officer were also ordered to complete an online course known as human rights 101 and provide proof of completion  to borderland pride within 30 days. > the course is offered by the ontario human rights commission, and their latest edition opens with an animated video telling viewers that the human rights code is not meant to punish. yeah right > students are also told that it doesnt matter if you didnt intend or mean to discriminate  its the impact on the person that matters. but the person can say they were impacted to wring money out of you as we are literally seeing > in a statement celebrating the decision, borderland pride noted that emo joins both london and hamilton in the category of ontario communities that have been sanctioned for refusing to adopt proclamations in support of their local pride organizations. > in 1995, hamilton mayor bob morrow was fined $5,000 for refusing to proclaim gay pride week. that same year, london, ont., was similarly fined $10,000 for refusing to officially recognize pride weekend.
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