Conversion therapy ban gets approval in principle, exposes Conservative divisions

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole voted in favour of the bill.But seven of his MPs voted against it, two abstained and eight others made it clear they were supporting it only grudgingly for now, in hopes that it will be amended by the Commons justice committee.

The bill would criminalize the practice of forcing children or adults to undergo therapy aimed at altering their sexual orientation or gender identity. Some Conservatives have expressed fears the bill would outlaw conversations between parents and their children or counsel from religious leaders.

The Reform Party still exists I guess...

There’s control issues all through the government

I have respect for all parties within our govt believing all Canadians have a right to representation, but this was absolute BS. There’s a huge difference between having conservative values and outright discrimination. These MP’s should be tossed.

Isn't. Gender reassignment a forum of conversion?

I wish more leaders allowed open votes. Don’t have to agree with someone’s opinion but I appreciate the honesty.

Conversion therapy is wrong no matter what. The fact that we have ppl in parliament who are for it blows my mind! Made it very easy choice as to who I’m not voting for.

Mr O’Toole knows about the strong right wing faction within his party! He used their support to gain the CPC leadership! He should clean house but.....he won’t!😷🇨🇦

Lol 308-7 is division....whoever is making the decisions at CTV is basically a giant POS....someone needs to make them aware in case they are disillusioned because this is exactly why MSM is loathed.

So the vast majority voted in favour of the bill, but your take is look at the division ?

This is why Canadians have a lot of trouble getting close to the cons. 7 agree with conversion therapy? What's with that. This is 2020 cons. With this kind of thinking, O'Toole you had better take a hard look who is on your team.

Head line should be “Conservatives respect individual thought in effort to improve conversion therapy bill”. No one supports forced coercion but wording in the bill needs improvement to assure the best possible support for children. Hopefully committee can improve.

Keep this shyte and its promoters the hell out of my country.

You guys know, right, that the Conservatives who voted in favour of the ban were just doing so because they know it would look bad if they didn't. Conservatives are all hateful people. If they were nice people, they'd be in a different party.

We are only now banning conversion therapy? Egads! Perhaps we could soon utilize telephones that are not attached to cords and affixed to our walls!! It’s progress...but decades late.

Libtards are afraid it might work

Conversion therapy? What year is it?

I really have a hard time understanding that some were against this bill... mind boggling 🤯

No surprise from the cons. What did you expect? They hate anyone who isn’t white or straight.

Expose them all.

Who even thinks of this bat shit crazy stuff

You mean exposes Conservatives ignorance and hate. Fuck them.

I appreciate conservatives were allowed to vote as they saw fit rather than having to follow the direction of the leader. I hope we see more of this in all parties. I am glad the bill passed.

The question is will Erin O'Toole oust the seven CPC MPs who voted against the ban as not aligned with party principles, or will he turn a blind eye? cdnpoli

Ban it

Good ol’ boys.

The definition of that must be a page long. If someone seeks counselling, I wonder if that would be considered conversion therapy. Interesting times we live in.

Thank goodness. Even Con Boris Johnson said conversion therapy has no place in a civilized society and is 'absolutely abhorrent '.

Can we use conversion therapy on returning ISIS members still?

7 out of 121 MPs in the conservative caucus and the headline is “exposes divisions?” Come on, there is likely more liberal MPs who have ethics violations but we don’t hear about that.

exposes nothing. Maybe 1 Conservative cares about conversion therapy.

How about you expose Justin’s scandals, ethics violations, corruption, and incompetence? Ah right, you’re FakeNews CTV!

JustinTrudeau tripled our national debt

Divisions? Conservative divisions ? The concepts of homosexual and transgender are being mixed up. People from all walks of politics are very concerned about what's going on here.

It's not a division in the party Everyone has a freedom of choice to decide where they stand. It's their point of view and belief.

308-7? That isn't really 'division', if it was 160-155 I might agree

There are probably divisions in the Liberal party as well but the MSM would never think about mentioning that.

Finally some good news and a push in the right direction combating this satanic agenda.

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