by Rex Wockner
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Canada has added a gay sentence to "Discover Canada," the nation's official citizenship study guide.
According to the national LGBT lobby group Egale, the sentence says, "Canada's diversity includes gay and lesbian Canadians, who enjoy the full protection of and equal treatment under the law, including access to civil marriage."
Egale criticized the guide for making no mention of transgender people, and urged Parliament to pass pending Bill C-389, which adds "gender identity" and "gender expression" as prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act and adds transphobic crimes to the Criminal Code's hate-crimes list.
