Conaptus' Jamie Ellerton writing in the Toronto Star on the politics of sex-ed
Dumb. That’s the way to describe the political response of Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership candidates to the new Health and Physical Education Curriculum. Social wedge issues have failed the party before and opposing a modern sex ed curriculum is setting the party up for failure again.
By stepping on this open land mine, they have succeeded in knocking the Sudbury bribery scandal and the three OPP investigations of this government off the front pages.
For all the talk about focusing education on English, math and science, the Party needs to read the numbers and stop this failed experiment. Ninety per cent of Ontarians agree it is time to update the sex ed curriculum. In an electoral system, 90 per cent trumps 10 per cent every time.
CBC speaks with Jamie Ellerton about the success of the Fabulous Blue Tent
At the Conservative Party's convention in Calgary in November, supporters queued up outside a chic lounge blocks from the convention centre. Music throbbed and lights flashed inside as the doorman stopped them: the party was full and the only way new people could get in was if somebody else left.
The biggest after-hours event at the Conservative Party convention last fall wasn't Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's hospitality suite. Nor was it a shindig thrown by a major lobbying firm. The party everyone wanted to go to is one that, 10 years ago, many wouldn't have imagined: one that celebrates the prominence and prevalence of gay Conservatives. Organizers call it the fabulous blue tent.
Jamie Ellerton of Conaptus discusses international gay rights on Sun News Network
Conaptus Ltd. Principal Jamie Ellerton joins Michael to discuss gay rights in Russia and the world's selective outrage