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Ontario premier-designate Doug Ford says he’s waiting on Toronto’s Pride organization to include uniformed police in their annual parade before he commits to attending the June 24 event.
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“I look forward to the organizers of the Pride parade to include the police,” told The Toronto Sun’s Editor-In-Chief Adrienne Batra during a video interview in The Sun’s newsroom Friday.
Ontario Premier-designate Doug Ford arrives in the Toronto Sun newsroom for an exclusive interview with the Toronto Sun’s Adrienne Batra on Friday June 8, 2018. (Stan Behal/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network )
“It’s supposed to be inclusive and the police play a big part in our community, in Toronto, they’re the first people we call when we need help. So I look forward to their decision on deciding if the police are going to be marching in their parade.”
Starting in 2016, police officers in uniform were forbidden from walking in the event, which draws hundreds of thousands of people to the city’s downtown core, after Black Lives Matter halted the parade, mid-event, with the demand they be excluded over police treatment of blacks and other minorities.
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The uniformed police inclusion drew more traction this year when the gay community accused authorities of mishandling investigations into people missing from the Gay Village after alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur was charged with the murders of eight men.
People from the Blacks Lives Matter movement march during the Pride parade in Toronto, Sunday, June 25, 2017.Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Blinch
On another front, Ford also told Batra he’s looking at the possibility of changing the minimum number of seats required to be an official party in Ontario. Currently, the Liberals have only seven seats, one seat shy of official party status.
“We’re always open to discussion,” said Ford. “We’ll sit down with our team and discuss that opportunity over the next few days, over the next couple of weeks.”
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