Despite the backlash, Mayor Rob Ford says he isn’t changing his mind about skipping the Pride Parade to go to the family cottage.“My family comes first,” Mayor Ford told reporters on Thursday who had traveled to a ribbon cutting of a medical supply store in Etobicoke. “I’m going up to the cottage. I don’t know how much more clear I can be and that’s the end of story.” He would not say if he will attend any event during the ten day festival. “I’ll take one day at a time, I’m lucky if I know what I’m doing tomorrow.”
Although not every mayor has attended, it has been a longstanding tradition for Toronto’s chief magistrate to march in the central Pride event, which draws revelers from around the world. Former mayors David Miller, Barbara Hall and Mel Lastman all marched. Criticism that Mr. Ford is not has drawn fierce criticism, with some raising the Mayor’s past controversial remarks regarding the gay community, and his stance that the city should not be funding the parade.
Mr. Ford dismissed as “nonsense” any suggestion that he is homophobic. When asked directly by a reporter if he is, Mr. Ford did not answer.
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Source: National Post
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