Edmonton Journal, Canada
Savings a pittance
The Edmonton Journal
April 13, 2009
In a $36-billion budget, the Alberta government chooses to eliminate
$700,000 for gender reassignment surgeries. By my calculation that's a
whopping 0.00194 per cent of the budget.
Sorry, but to me this looks like a convenient opportunity to disguise
blatant and cruel discrimination as fiscal prudence.
If it wasn't tragic, it would be laughable.
And the saddest thing is that the government will now have to spend
considerably more than they will save in defending this policy before
a human rights tribunal.
It's wrong, mean-spirited and petty, and for what it's worth, against
my religious principles.
Rev. Brian Kiely, Unitarian Church of Edmonton
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