With a provincial election coming up in October 2024, there’s a lot at stake. Parents in particular have a lot to lose if the NDP forms government, because it would likely repeal the Parents Bill of Rights that was passed just last year by the Sask Party government.

In August of last year, Saskatchewan's Minister of Education, Dustin Duncan, introduced “Parental Inclusion and Consent Policies” with an intent to standardize all provincial school board policies and restore parental rights, which had been greatly diminished by the woke education bureaucracy.

In part, the change was triggered by the government’s discovery that one of Saskatchewan’s many school boards had actually implemented a written policy which banned all teachers and school staff from notifying parents or seeking parental consent before facilitation their child’s sexual transitioning at school with the use of an opposite sex name and pronouns. Effectively, the board policy forced teachers to keep parents in the dark about their children’s sexual transition at school!

Another factor in the wonderful policy change, was a discovery by outraged parents about grade 9 students at a Lumsden High School being shown material displaying pornographic content in a classroom. The materials were provided by Planned Parenthood who distributed decks of cards with images of immoral sex acts and fetishes.

A third likely factor was New Brunswick Premier Blane Higgs announcement, that his government would be requiring all schools who wish to sexually transition kids, to first obtain parental consent for the use of opposite sex names and pronouns by their children under the age of 16.

After Education Minister Duncan introduced the Parental Inclusion policy, The University of Regina Pride Centre for Sexuality and Gender Diversity, along with LGBT lobby group, EGALE Canada launched legal action against the government of Saskatchewan. The groups claimed the policy was unconstitutional and it violates the Canadian charter of Rights, faslely claiming it would harm students to let parents have a say in the lives of their children.

On September 19, 2023, an activist judge ruled against the implementation and enforcement of the Saskatchewan government’s policy.

Consequently, Saskatchewan's Premier, Scott Moe, brought the Parents’ Bill of Rights (Bill 137) into legislature – and passed it - whilst invoking the notwithstanding clause, also known as Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This clause gives provinces the power to ignore activist judicial decisions relative to many areas of law, including education.

The parental Bill of Rights outlines that:

• Schools must ask for permission from parents or guardians when changing the preferred name or pronoun of students under the age of 16.
• Parents must be told of any sexual education content to be presented in the classroom two weeks before and must be given the option to withdraw their child from participating.
• All third-party organizations promoting sexual health education involved in the school board must be removed until the ministry investigates the educational curriculum and resources they provide. Only the teachers, government ministry employees or the Saskatchewan health authority will be able to present sexual health and education material in the classrooms.

Believe it or not, even after the government’s iron-clad defense of their policy, by passing legislation backed by the notwithstanding clause, the radical, anti-family lobby group, EGALE Canada, launched a fresh lawsuit against the Government of Saskchewan. EGALE is trying to persuade the court to believe requiring parental consent before a child can use opposite sex names and pronouns at school, is a violation of the Charter right to “be free from cruel and unusual punishment”, a section of the Charter to which the notwithstanding clause does not apply.

Parents across the province must encourage Premier Moe to hold the line, and use all government resources to defend his Parents Bill of Rights. They must also get out the word to everyone they know during the upcoming election that if the NDP wins, the Parents Bill of Rights will almost certainly be lost.