Borderland Pride has garnished Emo, Ontario, mayor Harold McQuaker's bank account for the $5,000 the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal awarded the group after McQuaker voted against proclaiming Pride Month in Emo.
Mayor who stood up to Pride group has bank account garnished | Toronto Sun | Joe Warmington:
December 7, 2024 - "LGBTQ2+ activists have literally made Emo Township Mayor Harold McQuaker pay for daring to stand up to them. Although the Northern Ontario municipal leader vowed not to honour a $5,000 fine the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) levied against him for comments surrounding town council not approving a motion to approve Pride month, he wasn’t given a choice. In fact, the winner of the judgement that McQuaker called 'extortion' has boasted it has already gone into his bank account to collect the money....
“'Mayor McQuaker’s comments in the Toronto Sun and other media were very clear that he did not respect nor intend to comply with the Tribunal’s orders,' Borderland Pride said in an email.
"'Consequently, it was apparent he would not voluntarily make payment of the damages ordered. We took immediate action to garnish his bank account.'
"What McQuaker told the Sun was, 'I utterly refuse to pay the $5,000 because that’s extortion' and also said he would not partake in an Ontario Human Rights Commission re-education course....
"Borderland Pride said, 'The garnishment was issued by the court and delivered to the CIBC in Emo, which is the only bank in that community' and 'there is no hearing or application to issue a notice of garnishment – it is a service provided at the court counter or online once a person has an order for the payment of money.' Borderland Pride also wrote, 'Orders of the Tribunal can be enforced in the same manner as any civil judgment for the payment of money. We intend to ensure the Tribunal’s orders are complied with'....
"Cancel culture is cancelling this mayor and digging into his personal savings too. On a weak premise that there is discrimination of LGBT people there, the enforcement is harsher than most violent criminals receive. It seems like a heavy-handed, undemocratic move, not to mention a violation of personal finances, and cruel and unusual punishment....
"The state using legal instruments to take from one person and give to others amounts to communism and authoritarianism that should scare every citizen. First, we saw government and banks freezing accounts of pandemic lockdown protesters, seizing donations to crowdfunding sites, and now in woke Canada comes word they can raid bank accounts, too....
"There is no decision so far on the status of the $10,000 fine HRTO slapped on the Township of Emo for the 2020 decision by town council to vote three to two against granting a request for there to be a Pride month in the village of just 1,400 people.... Borderland Pride said they have so far not garnished the township as they await that decision."
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