In West Africa, Trudeau soft peddles his gvmt’s strident LGBT advocacy
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began a two-day visit to the impoverished West African nation of Liberia this week by treading delicately around his government’s frank encouragement of homosexual and transgender status in Canada and internationally. Global Affairs Canada ’s website offers more than 130 links to projects around the world from Kashish to Manila and Dominica with which it is promoting homosexuality, but Trudeau shied from touting the issue in the heart of a region that is strongly opposed to that agenda. Yet he is signalling that he will advocate “ LGBT rights” in an address Saturday morning in Madagascar when speaking to La Francophonie , a consortium of the world’s nations with close ties to French language and culture. Trudeau came to Liberia to talk about the $11.5 million his government was spreading across West Africa over the next five years to advance the economic and social status of women. He encouraged the development of agriculture and c...