I just returned from a mission in Geneva, where I met with Canadian representatives at the UN.
There are tons of red flags all over the planet when it comes to LGBT rights. Certainly, with the changes in the composition of the U.S. Supreme Court favouring a shift to the right, it sends a signal worldwide that LGBT rights are now an easier target.
Setbacks have occurred pretty much everywhere. Canada is not excluded from this, and what happens in the U.S. eventually, over the years, ends up here. The debate happening in the U.S. right now is very heated, very complicated and very complex. The situation varies significantly from one state to the next. In fact, if you superimpose a map of U.S. states that are experiencing setbacks overtop of the actual map of the United States, what you'll find is that the states where LGBT communities already had very few rights or protections are regressing even further. This is a global phenomenon, and we feel it coming here.