Ottawa gay activists vow to keep staging Pride parade as organizers declare bankruptcy
“It’s a great day for Ottawa [if] sex will not be paraded on the main street and children will not be visually violated,” he told LifeSiteNews.
The Capital Pride Board of Directors stated on Facebook Monday that its current financial situation is “beyond its ability to alter or repair and is now forced to declare bankruptcy.”
Despite this, the city’s homosexuals have already declared that next year’s parade will go on, even if it means looking for outside help — including the possibility of moving an international homosexual festival to Ottawa — to make it happen.
“There will be something. It won’t be Capital Pride putting it on. They’ve lost all credibility. Nobody will ever work with them again,” Sebastien Provost, whose production company House of SAS helped organize this year’s event, told the Ottawa Citizen.
Capital Pride, formally known as Pride Ottawa-Gatineau, has more than a decade-long history of failing to pay its bills in its 29 years of existence. In 2006 it owed an estimated $187,000 for past events, including over $66,000 to the City of Ottawa and about $100,000 to local businesses. Confusion caused by missing invoices and bad record-keeping seems to constantly plague the organization.
LifeSiteNews reported in 2006 about how the Capital Pride committee was unable at that time to find sponsors for the event and wanted the city to step in and use tax dollars to cover costs.
Homosexual news service Xtra reported last month about a pending police investigation into the organization’s accounting irregularities that happened this year.
A company that provided this year’s homosexual event with tents, tables, chairs, and toilets has not been able to collect $42,000 owed by Capital Pride, reported Ottawa Citizen. Other partners have also failed to receive promised payment, including a liquor provider owed $24,000, a printing company owed about $8,500, and a DJ and a show producer both owed an unspecified but significant amount.
LifeSiteNews asked Capital Pride Chair Jodie McNamara by email if declaring bankruptcy means no more homosexual parades in Ottawa, but did not receive a response by press time.
