He now says he wants to correct the record because he will not scrap the Liberal sex-ed curriculum if he is premier after the 2018 provincial election.
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Opposing the curriculum could hurt Brown provincially, but would play well in the riding, said Chris Cochrane, an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus. “A vote for me and the Green Party supports access to healthy local food through gardens and local farms, reducing the impact of poverty with basic annual income, and energy for the 21st century starting by decommissioning Pickering nuclear on schedule”, says De Silva. “I am responsible. I own it and I apologize”.
Today, he told CBC’s Metro Morning that the flip flop may damage his party politically.
And the letter was translated into other languages – in a riding where more than half of residents don’t speak English as their first language – but Brown only appears to be professing his pro-sex-ed stance in English, Matthews said.
He then wrote an op-ed Monday and did a round of interviews Tuesday to disavow the letter even though doing so won’t help the party’s chances in the byelection, he said.
The waning days of the campaign in Scarborough-Rouge River have been dominated by controversy over the government’s sex-ed curriculum.
“(There are) many more pressing issues such as expanding the Scarborough subway, hydro rates, auto insurance, school funding, health-care funding – those are the major issues that I’m hearing on the ground”.
The curriculum was updated previous year, for the first time since 1998, but some parents complained that same-sex relationships, gender identity and masturbation were being taught.
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Brown says the curriculum changes are “hot topics” in the riding, and that while parents should be consulted, it doesn’t mean “opening the door to intolerance”.
