UPDATED: How Ontario's pro-LGBT sex education plan could derail Justin Trudeau's election bid

To recap and "set the table" for what follows... Under Canada's constitution, education is the exclusive responsibility of the provinces. The Liberal government of the province of Ontario is headed by Kathleen Wynne, a lesbian who's "out" and proud of it. Her education minister is Liz Sandals, who's not. Ms Wynne and Ms Sandals have decided that it's time to reintroduce a "new and improved" sex education curriculum which was first proposed some years ago, when Ms Wynne was the education minister. See "Pro-LGBT sex ed coming back to Ontario schools"

Why does Walt say "pro-LGBT"? One of the chief drafters and proponents of the new curriculum was now-disgraced Dr. Benjamin Levin, a paedophile recently convicted on charges of making written child pornography, counselling a person to commit a sexual assault, and possession of child pornography. See "Lesbian premier of Ontario pretends not to notice as pervert who drafted new sex ed curriculum pleads guilty to kiddy porn charges".

Ontario parents are understandably concerned -- very concerned -- about what kind of "information" Dr. Levin and his liberal secular humanist friends might insert into the new curriculum. Would it be a vehicle for pushing the pro-LGBT agenda -- homosexuality is OK, "gay marriage" is OK, alternative lifestyles are OK, etc -- to children as young as six? Answer: absolutely!

Ontario's new sex ed plan is being touted as "appropriate to a tolerant and digitally connected society". [What does "digitally connected" mean? Didn't that used to be a kind of sexual behaviour? Ed.] It introduces the topic of same-sex "marriage" in Grade 3 (typical age of students = 8) and "sexting" in Grade 7 (typical age = 12). Groups such as Parents Alliance of Ontario and Parents As First Educators claim it offers how-to lessons on masturbation, homosexuality, oral and anal sex. Check out "What's really in Ontario's new sex ed curriculum", with a video featuring Ezra Levant.

Ontario parents, particularly those from religious and "ethnic" communities are incensed. Some 5000 parents of them, largely in the Greater Toronto Area, where immigrants from Asia and Africa are in the majority, have joined a Facebook group calling for a boycott of classes next week to express opposition to the curriculum.

Firani Siddiqui will keep her two younger children home to protest the curriculum which she says breaches her right to decide when her children learn sensitive sexual information. "I don’t want teachers to tell my children that masturbation is a healthy thing — it’s a no no! Maybe I don’t want her to think it’s a healthy practice," Ms Siddiqui told an interviewer. She said she is not anti-gay [even worse than being anti-immigrant, apparently. Ed.] but simply believes the new curriculum gets too explicit too early. "I don’t want a stranger telling my kids about oral and anal sex."

Miriam Ali operates a daycare centre that caters to the children of new Canadians from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. In her opinion, the new sex-ed curriculum "corrupts the morals of our children. Our parents are very concerned about this. Sexual education should be taught by parents."

So many parents in Peel Region, Toronto's neighbour to the west, have expressed concerns over the curriculum that the public school board fears hundreds of parents in their region alone -- as many as 200 to 300 in some neighbourhoods -- will ask that their children be exempt from sex-education classes next fall.

And that's where the threat to Justin Trudeau, the federal Liberal Party's "shiny pony", comes in. Although the new curriculum is being introduced by the provincial government, that government is a Liberal government, and parents like Ms Siddiqui and Ms Ali hold Justin Trudeau partly to blame. That makes JT's dear friend and ally in the fight for gay rights, Kathleen Wynne, a key combatant in the federal election due no later than October 19th, whether she or he like it or not.

Parents rightly associate M. Trudeau with the programme just because of the Liberal party name. Conversely, the Conservative Party, presently in power in Ottawa, is aggressively positioning itself as the champion of family values. (This is not a little hypocritical, since the Tory and Liberal positions on abortion and gay "marriage" are indistinguishable, but never mind.)

Unfortunately for M. Trudeau and Ms Wynne, many immigrant Canadians from India, Pakistan, China, the Philippines and the sandpits of the Middle East are socially more conservative than their born-in-Canada counterparts, even the modernist Catholics and evangelical Protestants. And they voted for Steve Harper’s Conservatives in the 2011 federal election.

A senior Conservative strategist, told the Globe and Mail "on background", that his party will stress during the coming election campaign that "immigrant values are Conservative values" -- a remarkable sentiment for a pro-Canada party to be espousing -- and that Mr. Harper believes parents should be left to do the job of parenting. Presumably that includes teaching their kids about the rights and wrongs of things like gay "marriage", and oral and anal sex. The morality or otherwise of such things is not a part of Ontario's new sex education curriculum.

THIS JUST IN: Walt has just (this afternoon) received a phone call from an agent in Peel Region, which has seen the biggest and loudest protests against the pro-queer sex education curriculum, who reports that the Minister of Education, Lez Sandals, has agreed to some sort of meeting with the region's public school board to "clarify" the content of the curriculum, and the difference between the curriculum itself and what Ms Sandals now calls "prompts" given to tell teachers how to respond to questions about things like anal sex, should such questions arise. Whether parents will be allowed to attend the meeting is unclear. Looks to me like the government has blinked!