The City of Ottawa guaranteed a loan for the organizers of this year’s Gay Pride Parade;
Parade organizers borrowed $50,000 from the TD bank to hold the parade, and somebody at the city thought it was a good idea to guarantee the lone. When the gays stiffed the bank and walked away from the load, the city was left to pay the bill.
This is just wrong at a number of levels.
One of the problems is that the city had to dedicate a large number of police officers to the event – and by the way the officers were on orders to wish everyone there a “Happy Pride Day”. With those costs involved, and with our short staffing issues with Ottawa police, don’t you think we would be better served if the police officers were doing more essential things like stopping kids from breaking windows at schools or setting houses and dumpsters on fire in Barrhaven?
As city residents, we need our tax dollars to go to pay for the lack of essential services. A gay pride parade is not a core service.
If there is going to be a parade, that’s fine. But if the gay community has so much pride, maybe next year they can pay for the parade themselves.
If they don’t have the cash, there’s always community service. At the risk of perpetuating a stereotype – the city sponsored “painting better graffiti” courses could probably use a few instructors with an eye for colour and design.
“the gays stiffed the bank and walked away from the load”
Freud is still rolling and laughing and laughing and laughing…….
Maybe they should ask Rush Limbaugh for help. Rush has figured out a way for Air America to ask for donations because they can’t seem to find anyone who wants to buy ads. Perhaps New Orleans could do something similar.
Radio station can’t sell any ad for Air America
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46287
This is all too funny to watch. Best entertainment in a long while.
As we comment, Lowell Green, 580 CFRA AM, Ottawa, is simulcasting with talk radio host from Calgary, Alberta (11:15 AM EDT).
Topic: Well…… Alberta & you know what, & etc.
Gotta listen … also on ‘Net. Where is that dia….
Check out what Lloyd Axworthy’s University of Winnipeg is paying for – The Lesbian Rangers – it’s on their site.
Maybe one good thing that will come from NO is people will realize that in a crisis all government is local. How good would your mayor be in a disaster? Are your city managers more interested in hotel taxes and casinos then they are in your safety and well being? Also, for a city like Ottawa to put money TOWARDS graffiti is insane. IMHO graffiti should be obliturated within 3 days, always. As for so much of the civic “art” we get foisted on us, I use this axiom as a guide, “if I can do it, it is not art.”
lookin’ for a job, Kate?
http://angryincanada.blogspot.com/2005/08/tag-this-ottawa.html
Taxpayers Not Gay
Sheesh. They’re not that proud.
“the city sponsored “painting better graffiti” courses could probably use a few instructors with an eye for colour and design”
Queer Eye for the Straight Skyline? Heh. Every city needs fabulous graffiti.
“stiffed the bank”
Is this a double entendre??
I wouldn’t want my city government to quarantee loans without other separate legal recourse in place with the organization and it’s directors.
If they default then their personal (assets and property held for surety) or director’s liability (insurance) comes into play.
Steve, you homophobic bastard, how dare you suggest that gays aren’t entitled to absolutely everything they can steal. Time you faced a human rights commission.
Excuse me, this is an awkward thing to ask, but I’d like to pose a question to the loan officer:
Where did you think a “Gay Pride Parade” was going to get the revenue to repay the loan from in the first place?
Congratulations to Mike for thinking for himself.
Why lend anyone money for something silly which doesn’t produce revenue for the borrowers? No wonder Ottawa guaranteed the loan. Question: did the spoiled mandarins in their fancy gov’t corner offices with windows realize it was unlikely the borrowers would repay the loan, which they wouldn’t have needed in the first place if they had any financial wherewithal?
Someone should hold a straight pride parade and try to get a loan guaranteed for it. See what happens then.
Will wonders never cease?
That’s it. I’m switching teams. I’m comin’out! I’m gettin’ a job pushin’ in stools at a gay bar!
Seriously though, what would happen if I really did declare myself gay and start some sort of gay organization? Would I be entitled to grants of any kind? Hmmmmm. (wheels turning…)
Besides, who can prove I didn’t consumate my alleged conversion?
Tell me again why they call it ‘Gay Pride’
Today must be Canada Day for me. This is my second post re our friends to the North. Speaking of which, they’re still trying to get things figured out up in Ottawa: Parade organizers borrowed $50,000 from the TD bank
“I’m gettin’ a job pushin’ in stools at a gay bar!”
‘Nuff said. Freud avait raison.
You realize, of course, Dawg, that once you consider that among other things a stool is “A backless and armless single seat supported on legs or a pedestal”, it may indeed be you who has slipped.
Hmmm.. Special events bring in tourist dollars and are a boon to any community. Saskatoon city council yearly donates large sums of money / equipment and staff time to help ensure the success of the events. There are often events that end up running a deficit and the council has to end up bailing them out. In a perfect world this wouldn’t happen, but it’s not a perfect world.
I don’t know the circumstances but I find it interesting that you have such a ‘hate on’ for anything gay. Funny that you can always find the silver lining of the Iraq war but it’s always the disgusting homosexuals doing something horrible again.
As for ‘pushing stools in’, that really does bring quite a sheen of quality to smalldeadanimals. But then again, I’d expect nothing else.
Hey Todd, take a pill. There’s worse said about me in my comments. I leave up most of the crap spouted from the lefties as well.
That said – I don’t read all the comments, so if you see something you think is beyond the pale, send me an email.
As far as being critical of this type of gay activism, you bet – it has a lot to answer for.
That’s quite a different matter than attacking homosexuals, just as my strong distain for modern feminism has nothing to do with attacking my own gender. Stop taking it personally.
Kate’s right.
Todd, can you explain to us why it’s ok for the state to favor one group over another, but not okay to criticize this discriminatory favoritism?
After all, we’re supposed to be free to discuss stuff in Canada, unless there’s a hidden agenda to silence nonapproved-by-the-state discussion…
“can you explain to us why it’s ok for the state to favor one group over another”?
It�s not. But it is the goal of pretty much every special interest group. The left generally tries to do it more (in my view), but those on the right engage in it as well. Most just aren’t willing to admit it, or claim that in their particular case its justified.
That being said, I’m assuming that the $50,000 probably came out of the budget of $28,000,000 that the City of Ottawa set aside for “Cultural Services and Community Funding”. Personally I think the entire $28 mil is better spent somewhere else. Policing for example. Hell even public transit is a more legitimate expense. Or better yet, don’t raise property taxes as much!
As far as nasty comments go, I have seen Kate police them. Or rather I have seen them vanish from the comments section and I assumed Kate deleted them. Personally I�m all for letting idiots demonstrate that fact, but it�s Kate�s blog so she gets to set the standard.
Todd, “Disgusting homosexuals “…blah blah blah. Didja check out the pics of the “Gay Pride Parade” in Toronto? Turns my stomach. I am not antigay, I’m antigross.
Banks would “bend over backwards” (pardon the pun) to sponsor gay day parades when they get the chance.
The Royal Bank and especially the CIBC have been very active in doing such in the last few years.
Chances are the TD would probably be scared of getting labelled homophobic for not lending the money and the $50,000 was probably cheap for them than rather dealing with the publicity the politically correct worshippers would dish out.
Maybe the bank should confiscate their bathhouses?