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WARMINGTON: Mayor says he refuses to be bullied or pay fine for not flying Pride flag

Joe Warmington

(Toronto Sun, Dec 02, 2024)  •  Last updated 3 hours ago  •  8 minute read

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A Northern Ontario mayor fined for voting against flying a Pride flag says he will not be bullied into paying the $5,000 penalty.
In this file photo taken on Nov. 20, 2022, a community member’s silhouette is seen through a Pride flag while paying their respects to the victims of the mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Photo by JASON CONNOLLY /AFP via Getty Images

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A Northern Ontario mayor who was fined for voting against flying a Pride flag at his town hall says he will not be bullied into paying the $5,000 penalty.

Nor will Mayor Harold McQuaker be taking LGBTQ training as he has been ordered to by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO)

And, McQuaker, insisted he won’t cave to demands that he must host a Drag Time story hour in the local library, either.

Canada may be a free country in some places. But not in Emo Township — 380 kilometres west of Thunder Bay on the Canada-U.S. border. In this township, defying LGBTQ demands can not only land you a stiff fine, but also an order to attend a re-education camp, too.

This story which has had coverage in the United States and Europe is happening in Premier Doug Ford’s Ontario where they can’t seem to keep repeat gunman from being let out on bail but they can throw the book at a soon-to-be 77-year-old rural mayor of a tiny village.

“I utterly refuse to pay the $5,000 because that’s extortion,” McQuaker told The Toronto Sun

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Whether Emo, located across from Minnesota, pays its $10,000 fine from the HRTO will be decided Tuesday.

“I have a lot of respect for our four councillors,” said the mayor. “We have a special meeting of council, and they will decide that and what to do next. Either pay the fine or appeal it?”

Their choices are simple: Either buckle and bend to the pressure being brought on them by the OHRC and a local Pride group or tell them to go pound salt.

“The Township shall pay to Borderland Pride the sum of $10,000 as compensation for infringement of the Code,” said HRTO Commissioner Karen Dawson in her Nov. 20 ruling. “Mayor McQuaker shall pay to Borderland Pride the sum of $5,000 as compensation for infringement of the Code.”

Emo Township in Nothern Ontrario has been ordered to a $10,000 pay a fine by the Ontario Human Rights Commission for not voting to fly a Pride flag -- photo courtesy of Borderland Pride
Emo Township in Northern Ontario has been ordered to a $10,000 pay a fine by the Ontario Human Rights Commission for not voting to fly a Pride flag — photo courtesy of Borderland Pride

She added “Mayor McQuaker and the Township’s current CAO shall complete the OHRC eLearning Module, titled Human Rights 101, and provide proof of completion of same to Borderland Pride within 30 days of the date of this decision.”

It sounds like a prison sentence — only tougher than most criminals ever receive. It also shows when the motion was brought to council in 2020 to fly a Pride flag for Pride month, it was not a request but a demand, punishable by fine should council not play ball.